Denying the punishment of the grave by appealing to the senses and reason
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Question:
The questioner says: Honorable Shaykh, what is the ruling on one who denies the punishment of the grave, arguing that it is not found in the senses or in reason?
Answer:
The senses and reason are not evidence that everything exists only if one perceives it. There are things that exist, yet you do not see them or perceive them.[Yunus 10:39] You do not perceive all things. There is the unseen world and the world of witness. You do not perceive anything of the unseen world except what Allah knows, or what Allah has revealed to someone of the unseen.
Therefore, the one who denies the punishment of the grave, while knowing the evidence that has come regarding it and knowing this, commits kufr (disbelief) and apostatizes from the religion of Islam, because he is lying to Allah and His Messenger and to the consensus of the Muslims. However, if he is a muqallid (one who follows a scholar without knowing his evidence) following someone else, or if he did not know the evidence, then he is considered misguided; he is to be guided and the truth is explained to him. If he persists, then he is concluded to be a disbeliever. Yes. And Allah the Exalted knows best, and may Allah send prayers and peace upon our Prophet Muhammad and upon his family.
The questioner says: Honorable Shaykh, what is the ruling on one who denies the punishment of the grave, arguing that it is not found in the senses or in reason?
Answer:
The senses and reason are not evidence that everything exists only if one perceives it. There are things that exist, yet you do not see them or perceive them.
Rather, they have denied that which they encompass not in knowledge and whose interpretation has not yet come to them.
بَلْ كَذَّبُوا بِمَا لَمْ يُحِيطُوا بِعِلْمِهِ وَلَمَّا يَأْتِهِمْ تَأْوِيلُهُTherefore, the one who denies the punishment of the grave, while knowing the evidence that has come regarding it and knowing this, commits kufr (disbelief) and apostatizes from the religion of Islam, because he is lying to Allah and His Messenger and to the consensus of the Muslims. However, if he is a muqallid (one who follows a scholar without knowing his evidence) following someone else, or if he did not know the evidence, then he is considered misguided; he is to be guided and the truth is explained to him. If he persists, then he is concluded to be a disbeliever. Yes. And Allah the Exalted knows best, and may Allah send prayers and peace upon our Prophet Muhammad and upon his family.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، 4 من 64\شرح عمدة الأحكام (شرح كامل مع أسئلة)\الطهارة\دخول الخلاء والاستطابة\صالح الفوزان\الفقه — youtube.com (1:02:32)
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