The Ruling on Those Who Worship Graves, Ruling on Them Specifically, and Excusing Them Due to Ignorance
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The questioner:
The questioner asks: Are those who worship graves disbelievers specifically? This is because we hear people say that these are Muslims who are ignorant and have been afflicted with disbelief, so they should not be ruled upon specifically. Is this statement correct?
The Shaykh:
Whoever commits an act of disbelief is a disbeliever. We have no concern except with outward appearances, so we apply the rulings of disbelievers to them as long as they worship other than Allah, slaughter for other than Allah, and call upon the dead for aid. We rule that they are disbelievers and apply the rulings of disbelievers to them. We do not seek forgiveness for them after their death,[At-Tawbah 9:113] nor do we pray over their funerals, nor do we bury them in the graveyards of Muslims. We apply the rulings of disbelievers to them. Yes.
The questioner:
May Allah reward you. The questioner says: We heard from some...
The Shaykh:
As for them being ignorant, they are not ignorant. The Qur'an is recited, and they hear it, read it, and memorize it. The hadiths of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) are read and taught. They hear the words of the scholars. So no ignorance remains except for stubbornness. They are stubborn because the proof has been established against them. As long as the proof has been established against them, no ignorance remains by which they can be excused. The ignorant are those who have not heard anything, who lived cut off from the world and to whom nothing reached. Those are the ignorant. As for those who live in the lands of Muslims and memorize the Qur'an or hear it, who hear the words of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him), and hear the words of the scholars, they have no excuse left except that they want to remain as they are and want to imitate so-and-so and so-and-so. These people have no excuse.
The presenter:
May Allah reward you.
The questioner asks: Are those who worship graves disbelievers specifically? This is because we hear people say that these are Muslims who are ignorant and have been afflicted with disbelief, so they should not be ruled upon specifically. Is this statement correct?
The Shaykh:
Whoever commits an act of disbelief is a disbeliever. We have no concern except with outward appearances, so we apply the rulings of disbelievers to them as long as they worship other than Allah, slaughter for other than Allah, and call upon the dead for aid. We rule that they are disbelievers and apply the rulings of disbelievers to them. We do not seek forgiveness for them after their death,
It is not for the Prophet and those who have believed to ask forgiveness for the polytheists, even if they
مَا كَانَ لِلنَّبِيِّ وَالَّذِينَ آمَنُوا أَن يَسْتَغْفِرُوا لِلْمُشْرِكِينَ وَلَوْ كَانُواThe questioner:
May Allah reward you. The questioner says: We heard from some...
The Shaykh:
As for them being ignorant, they are not ignorant. The Qur'an is recited, and they hear it, read it, and memorize it. The hadiths of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) are read and taught. They hear the words of the scholars. So no ignorance remains except for stubbornness. They are stubborn because the proof has been established against them. As long as the proof has been established against them, no ignorance remains by which they can be excused. The ignorant are those who have not heard anything, who lived cut off from the world and to whom nothing reached. Those are the ignorant. As for those who live in the lands of Muslims and memorize the Qur'an or hear it, who hear the words of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him), and hear the words of the scholars, they have no excuse left except that they want to remain as they are and want to imitate so-and-so and so-and-so. These people have no excuse.
The presenter:
May Allah reward you.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، محاضرات في العقيدة والدعوة-099-نواقض الإسلام|صالح الفوزان|كبار العلماء — youtube.com (1:04:07)
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