What is the ruling on one who dies on other than the religion of Islam, having not known it with true knowledge, or not having heard of it as it should be?
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Question:
May Allah reward you with good and do you good. He says: In some countries of the world, and in some of their villages and hamlets, people have not learned anything about Islam, have not known it with true knowledge, and have not heard of it as it should be. What is the ruling on one of them who dies on other than the religion of Islam?
Answer:
If this person has never heard anything about Islam, is cut off from the world, and nothing has reached him, then he is considered one of the people of the period of ignorance (al-fatra) to whom the call did not reach.
The scholars have differed regarding the people of the period of ignorance. The most correct opinion, and Allah knows best, is that they will be tested on the Day of Resurrection. They will be called to Allah on the Day of Resurrection, so whoever among them responds will enter Paradise, and whoever refuses will enter the Fire.
However, for this person or these people to be cut off and have nothing reach them is the rarest of the rare, especially in this time when means of communication, publication, and media have developed, calling the East and the West through the air and the ether. Allah has wisdom in this so that the argument is established against the servants, so that no one can say, "I did not hear anything." The general state of the world is that the voice of Islam now reaches them everywhere. Yes.
May Allah reward you with good and do you good. He says: In some countries of the world, and in some of their villages and hamlets, people have not learned anything about Islam, have not known it with true knowledge, and have not heard of it as it should be. What is the ruling on one of them who dies on other than the religion of Islam?
Answer:
If this person has never heard anything about Islam, is cut off from the world, and nothing has reached him, then he is considered one of the people of the period of ignorance (al-fatra) to whom the call did not reach.
The scholars have differed regarding the people of the period of ignorance. The most correct opinion, and Allah knows best, is that they will be tested on the Day of Resurrection. They will be called to Allah on the Day of Resurrection, so whoever among them responds will enter Paradise, and whoever refuses will enter the Fire.
However, for this person or these people to be cut off and have nothing reach them is the rarest of the rare, especially in this time when means of communication, publication, and media have developed, calling the East and the West through the air and the ether. Allah has wisdom in this so that the argument is established against the servants, so that no one can say, "I did not hear anything." The general state of the world is that the voice of Islam now reaches them everywhere. Yes.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، ما حكم من مات على غير ملة الإسلام وهو لم يعرفها حق المعرفة، أو لم يسمع عنها كما ينبغي؟ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com
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