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Establishing the Proof Against the People of the Arabian Peninsula

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Question:
He says: Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. Some people say that the Shaykh, the reformer Muhammad ibn 'Abd al-Wahhab (may Allah have mercy on him), established the proof against the people of the Arabian Peninsula, so they are not excused by ignorance in worshipping other than Allah and matters of shirk (associating partners with Allah), whereas people from other countries, such as the people of Egypt, Syria, and others, are excused by ignorance, and the scholars' fatwas are understood to be based on that. Is this statement correct?

Answer:
The people who are outside Saudi Arabia and outside the Peninsula do not hear the Qur'an. They do not hear the hadiths. They do not hear the words of the scholars and read them. I mean, only the words of Ibn 'Abd al-Wahhab. This is a statement with no basis. The proof has been established against them. Anyone who hears the Qur'an, and he is an Arab who understands the meaning of Arabic, the proof has been established against him.
And this Qur'an was revealed to me that I may warn you thereby and whomever it reaches.وَأُوحِيَ إِلَيَّ هَٰذَا الْقُرْآنُ لِأُنذِرَكُم بِهِ وَمَن بَلَغَ
[Al-An'am 6:19]
And as for the one to whom it has been conveyed: if a person is an Arab who understands the language of the Qur'an, and it warns him against shirk (associating partners with Allah) and warns him against kufr (disbelief), threatening him with the Fire, then how is the argument established against one who is not an Arab and does not understand?
Yes, let us leave aside the fatwas and let us leave aside the statement of so-and-so. The Qur'an, the Qur'an is clear in this. Yes,
Indeed, Allah has cursed the disbelieversإِنَّ اللَّهَ لَعَنَ الْكَافِرِينَ
[Al-Ahzab 33:64]
does he not understand this?
Indeed, he who associates others with Allah - Allah has forbidden him Paradiseإِنَّهُ مَن يُشْرِكْ بِاللَّهِ فَقَدْ حَرَّمَ اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ الْجَنَّةَ
[Al-Ma'idah 5:72]
does he not understand this? Glory be to Allah. Yes,
so do not invoke with Allah anyone.فَلَا تَدْعُوا مَعَ اللَّهِ أَحَدًا
[Al-Jinn 72:18]
and he says, "O 'Abd al-Qadir, O so-and-so, O this one," he does not understand, he calls upon other than Allah, and he hears His saying, the Exalted,
so do not invoke with Allah anyone.فَلَا تَدْعُوا مَعَ اللَّهِ أَحَدًا
[Al-Jinn 72:18]
Yes.
Source المنتقى من أخبار سيد المرسلين، أسئلة المنتقى — alfawzan.live (2:12)

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