When is a person excused by ignorance?
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Question:
May Allah reward you with good. Honorable Shaykh, this questioner says: What does the phrase "excuse due to ignorance" mean? May Allah preserve you.
Answer:
The excuse due to ignorance is undoubtedly prescribed if that ignorance is of a kind for which one can be excused. However, if the ignorance can be removed, but the person is negligent and does not ask, then he commits a sin for that. Therefore, ignorance is an excuse only as long as one does not find someone to ask who can remove his ignorance through questioning and learning, or as long as he does not hear the issues, obligations, obligatory acts, and prohibitions on the radio or in the media. If, despite this, he says, "I am ignorant," he has no excuse, because the proof has reached him. Yes.
May Allah reward you with good. Honorable Shaykh, this questioner says: What does the phrase "excuse due to ignorance" mean? May Allah preserve you.
Answer:
The excuse due to ignorance is undoubtedly prescribed if that ignorance is of a kind for which one can be excused. However, if the ignorance can be removed, but the person is negligent and does not ask, then he commits a sin for that. Therefore, ignorance is an excuse only as long as one does not find someone to ask who can remove his ignorance through questioning and learning, or as long as he does not hear the issues, obligations, obligatory acts, and prohibitions on the radio or in the media. If, despite this, he says, "I am ignorant," he has no excuse, because the proof has reached him. Yes.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، 7197- متى يعذر الإنسان بالجهل؟ - الشيخ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com
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