The Ruling on Excusing Ignorance in Matters of Creed
Machine translationRead the Arabic original
Question:
Another questioner, whose name is indicated by the letters M and T, asks about the ruling on excusing ignorance in matters of creed?
Answer:
If he has not received any information and lives isolated from the Muslims, and nothing has reached him, then he is like the people of the period of ignorance (fatrah); he is excused due to ignorance until he learns and the truth is made clear to him. However, if he is with the Muslims, in the lands of the Muslims, and prays with the Muslims, then ignorance is removed from him, with the permission of Allah. Yes.
Another questioner, whose name is indicated by the letters M and T, asks about the ruling on excusing ignorance in matters of creed?
Answer:
If he has not received any information and lives isolated from the Muslims, and nothing has reached him, then he is like the people of the period of ignorance (fatrah); he is excused due to ignorance until he learns and the truth is made clear to him. However, if he is with the Muslims, in the lands of the Muslims, and prays with the Muslims, then ignorance is removed from him, with the permission of Allah. Yes.
Source
قناة «السعودية»، برنامج فتاوى — youtube.com (33:39)
The Arabic text is a machine transcription of the audio recording.