Is one excused by ignorance if he dies upon the belief of worshipping graves?
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Question:
He says: If a person dies upon the belief of worshipping graves and was ignorant, should one seek forgiveness for him and make du'a for him, or not?
Answer:
One who dies upon shirk (associating partners with Allah) is not to be sought forgiveness for. Ignorance is gone, and praise be to Allah, through the sending of the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him), the revelation of the Qur'an, and the Prophetic Sunnah that spread among people in the East and the West. So whoever says there is ignorance now, there is no ignorance now. Whoever the Qur'an has reached, and the hadiths have reached, and the words of the scholars have reached, is not ignorant. But he does not care; he wants blind taqlid (following a scholar without knowing his evidence).
He says: If a person dies upon the belief of worshipping graves and was ignorant, should one seek forgiveness for him and make du'a for him, or not?
Answer:
One who dies upon shirk (associating partners with Allah) is not to be sought forgiveness for. Ignorance is gone, and praise be to Allah, through the sending of the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him), the revelation of the Qur'an, and the Prophetic Sunnah that spread among people in the East and the West. So whoever says there is ignorance now, there is no ignorance now. Whoever the Qur'an has reached, and the hadiths have reached, and the words of the scholars have reached, is not ignorant. But he does not care; he wants blind taqlid (following a scholar without knowing his evidence).
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، هل يعذر بالجهل من مات على عقيدة عباد القبور؟ للشيخ الفوزان — youtube.com
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