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﴿ فَاسْأَلُوا أَهْلَ الذِّكْرِ إِن كُنتُمْ لَا تَعْلَمُونَ ﴾

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The excuse of ignorance for one who received knowledge from grave-worshipping scholars

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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. Many questions are asked regarding the issue of the excuse of ignorance in the domain of creed, among them this question: If a person grows up in a country whose scholars are grave-worshippers, and this person has taken knowledge from them in accordance with His saying
So ask the people of the messageفَاسْأَلُوا أَهْلَ الذِّكْرِ
[An-Nahl 16:43]
, is he excused for not

Answer:
My brother, tawhid (the oneness of Allah) is currently being disseminated in books, distributed in books, broadcast on radio, and published in the media day and night. And you say that his shaykhs are superstitious. Are there no shaykhs other than his? There are scholars of the Sunnah and scholars of tawhid. Why does he take the words of his shaykhs and leave the words of others? Yes, this is fanaticism, and he is not excused by ignorance, because this has become clear to him and has reached him. Yes.
Source شرح كتاب فتح المجيد في شرح كتاب التوحيد [ صالح الفوزان ]، تابع باب : تفسير التوحيد وشهادة أن لا إله إلا الله - 1 — islamhouse.com (1:01:48)

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