The Ruling on Excuse by Ignorance After the Sending of the Messengers
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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, does the issue of excuse by ignorance differ from one country to another, or is it absolute? And does the lack of excuse by ignorance mean that the ruling of disbelief applies absolutely to anyone who commits an act of shirk (associating partners with Allah)?
Answer:
We have said that ignorance has been removed by the sending of the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him). Allah the Exalted says:[Al-Isra 17:15] And Allah sent the Messenger, and He the Exalted says: [An-Nisa 4:165] So Allah sent the messengers, and their call reached the east and the west, and nothing remains except negligence and lack of attention to the call of the messengers and to seeking what they brought, so they are not excused. Or not known, yes.
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, does the issue of excuse by ignorance differ from one country to another, or is it absolute? And does the lack of excuse by ignorance mean that the ruling of disbelief applies absolutely to anyone who commits an act of shirk (associating partners with Allah)?
Answer:
We have said that ignorance has been removed by the sending of the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him). Allah the Exalted says:
And never would We punish until We sent a messenger.
وَمَا كُنَّا مُعَذِّبِينَ حَتَّىٰ نَبْعَثَ رَسُولًا[We sent] messengers as bringers of good tidings and warners so that mankind will have no argument against Allah after the messengers
رُّسُلًا مُّبَشِّرِينَ وَمُنذِرِينَ لِئَلَّا يَكُونَ لِلنَّاسِ عَلَى اللَّهِ حُجَّةٌ بَعْدَ الرُّسُلِ
Source
العذر بالجهل — alfawzan.live
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