Does Allah forgive the one who commits minor shirk if he dies before repenting?

Question:
In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. May Allah reward you, Your Eminence the Shaykh, may Allah bless you, and may Allah reward the Muslims with the best reward. The questioner asks: Does Allah forgive minor shirk if its perpetrator dies while still in it? Knowing that I read one of the statements of Shaykh al-Islam Ibn Taymiyyah (may Allah have mercy on him), in which he says that minor shirk falls under the saying of Allah the Exalted: .

Answer:
The scholars differed on whether minor shirk is forgiven, just as major sins are forgiven if Allah (Glorified and Exalted is He) wills, or whether it is not forgiven and the person must be punished?
This is the apparent meaning of the verse . This is general for major shirk (associating partners with Allah) and minor shirk: that Allah does not forgive shirk, whether it is major or minor. However, the one who commits major shirk will remain in the Fire forever, whereas the one who commits minor shirk will be punished in it and then brought out of it into Paradise. This is the difference between them.
Some of the scholars say that it is forgiven for him, that it falls under the will of Allah, and that if Allah wills, He forgives it. But the correct opinion is the first one. And some of the scholars hold a third opinion, saying that if the good deeds of the servant outweigh his bad deeds, then minor shirk is forgiven for him if his good deeds outweigh his bad deeds. But if his bad deeds outweigh his good deeds, meaning that minor shirk is not forgiven for him. Allah knows best.