The Excuse of Ignorance for One Who Grew Up Worshipping Graves
Machine translationRead the Arabic original
Question:
The questioner says: A person grew up with shirk (associating partners with Allah), the worship of graves, and calling upon other than Allah, and despite this, he is a person who prays, fasts, and performs Hajj. Is he excused due to his ignorance?
Answer:
No, his prayer, fasting, and Hajj are not valid, because shirk invalidates deeds. As long as he has major shirk, all his acts of worship are invalid, may Allah protect us from that,[Al-An'am 6:88],
The presenter:
May Allah reward you.
The questioner says: A person grew up with shirk (associating partners with Allah), the worship of graves, and calling upon other than Allah, and despite this, he is a person who prays, fasts, and performs Hajj. Is he excused due to his ignorance?
Answer:
No, his prayer, fasting, and Hajj are not valid, because shirk invalidates deeds. As long as he has major shirk, all his acts of worship are invalid, may Allah protect us from that,
But if they had associated others with Allah, then worthless for them would be whatever they were doing.
وَلَوْ أَشْرَكُوا لَحَبِطَ عَنْهُم مَّا كَانُوا يَعْمَلُونَThe presenter:
May Allah reward you.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، 31/10 شرح كتاب التوحيد / الشيخ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com (1:05:03)
The Arabic text is a machine transcription of the audio recording.