The Ruling on the Rafidah Residing in These Lands

Question:
Sami asks your eminence: What is the ruling on the Rafidah who live in these lands? Are they Muslims or disbelievers? Even though they study the correct creed in the regular schools?

Answer:
If they believe in it, they are Muslims. But if they study it and do not believe in it, they are on nothing, and the study does not benefit them. Knowledge does not benefit except with action. This is specific to the Rafidah: whoever has knowledge and does not act upon it, it does not benefit him and becomes an argument against him on the Day of Resurrection. So the argument has been established against them by their teaching of the correct creed. The argument has been established against them, and they have no excuse with Allah in this. Some say that their common people are not held accountable or excused.
My brother, they are studying now. They are studying tawhid (the oneness of Allah), and the schools are widespread among them, and they study with the people of the Sunnah. So how can it be said that they are common people? They are not common people now; they are educated, and their fathers— their fathers receive the knowledge through their sons. So the argument has been established against them. Yes.