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﴿ فَاسْأَلُوا أَهْلَ الذِّكْرِ إِن كُنتُمْ لَا تَعْلَمُونَ ﴾

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The Criterion for Specific Takfir and Circumambulating Graves

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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, what is the criterion for specific takfir (declaring someone a disbeliever)? And does one who circumambulates graves and shrines become a disbeliever specifically, given that they grew up in a society that permits this?

Answer:
Whoever says a word of disbelief or acts with disbelief or shirk (associating partners with Allah) is considered a disbeliever and a mushrik (one who associates partners with Allah). The ignorant one is the person who has not heard of anything, who grew up in a land where nothing reached them, who has not heard the Qur'an, has not heard the hadiths, and has not heard the words of the scholars of knowledge; he is cut off from the scholars. This is the one who is excused by ignorance. As for a person who lives in the lands of Muslims, hears the Qur'an, hears the hadiths, and hears the words of the scholars, he is not considered ignorant. Yes.
Source شرح بلوغ المرام من أدلة الأحكام [ صالح الفوزان ]، باب إحياء الموات — islamhouse.com (54:29)

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