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﴿ فَاسْأَلُوا أَهْلَ الذِّكْرِ إِن كُنتُمْ لَا تَعْلَمُونَ ﴾

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The ruling on one who denies something of the matters of creed or the Shari'ah

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Question:
May Allah reward you, Honorable Shaykh. A questioner says in his question: If a person is ignorant of something of the matters of creed, or denies something of the Shari'ah while being ignorant, is he held accountable for it as if it were intentional? Please clarify this for us.

Answer:
As for the matters of creed, they are clear in the Book and the Sunnah, and no one is excused for being ignorant of them, as the Qur'an has reached him and the Sunnah has reached him. Allah the Exalted said:
And this Qur'an was revealed to me that I may warn you thereby and whomever it reaches.وَأُوحِيَ إِلَيَّ هَٰذَا الْقُرْآنُ لِأُنذِرَكُم بِهِ وَمَن بَلَغَ
[Al-An'am 6:19]
If the Qur'an has reached him and he is an Arab who understands the Arabic language, he knows the obligation of tawhid (the oneness of Allah) and the sincerity of worship to Allah, and he knows the prohibition of shirk (associating partners with Allah) and the invalidity of shirk from the explicit text of the Qur'an and the explicit text of the Sunnah. So no one to whom the Qur'an has reached is excused for being ignorant of the creed, and for being ignorant of what contradicts it and corrupts it, even in a general sense, even if he does not know it in detail.
As for the remaining matters of the Shari'ah, the hidden matters that are a place for ijtihad (independent legal reasoning) and the expansion of effort, a person is excused in these until the truth becomes clear to him and the correct ruling becomes clear to him. Yes.
Source قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، 6144- حكم من أنكر شيئاً من أمور العقيدة أو الشريعة - الشيخ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com

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