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﴿ فَاسْأَلُوا أَهْلَ الذِّكْرِ إِن كُنتُمْ لَا تَعْلَمُونَ ﴾

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When is a Muslim excused for ignorance of tawhid (the oneness of Allah), and when is he not excused?

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Question:
The truth is that there are many questions, so we will move on to those related to the topic of the lecture, and then turn to any matters of Islamic jurisprudence that the school may need, such as those concerning the canonical recitations and others. Honorable Shaykh (may Allah preserve him), when is a Muslim excused for ignorance of tawhid (the oneness of Allah) and for committing some of the nullifiers of faith, and when is he not excused for ignorance?

Answer:
A Muslim is not excused. The Muslim who reads the Qur'an and hears the Sunnah and the hadiths is not excused by this. He is not ignorant; he is not an ignorant person. The one who is excused for ignorance is the person who is cut off from the world, to whom nothing reaches, to whom nothing reaches. He has not heard the Qur'an, nor the hadiths, nor the words of the scholars. He is cut off from the world. This is the one who is excused for ignorance. But as for a person who lives with Muslims, lives in the lands of Muslims and in the Islamic world, and hears the Qur'an, or he memorizes the Qur'an and recites it and completes it dozens of times, and he masters its tajwid (the rules of Qur'anic recitation) and its recitation, yet he remains upon the beliefs of the pre-Islamic age of ignorance, while the Qur'an forbids him from them and warns him against them, and there is hardly a verse that passes in the Book of Allah except that it warns against shirk (associating partners with Allah) and warns against the matters of the pre-Islamic age of ignorance, and then it is said that this person is ignorant? This person has been reached by the proof. The one who has been reached by the proof is not ignorant. Allah the Exalted said:
And this Qur'an was revealed to me that I may warn you thereby and whomever it reaches.وَأُوحِيَ إِلَيَّ هَٰذَا الْقُرْآنُ لِأُنذِرَكُم بِهِ وَمَن بَلَغَ
[Al-An'am 6:19]
And the Qur'an has reached the east and the west, and praise be to Allah. Yes.

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Source قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، محاضرات في العقيدة والدعوة-02-مفتاح السعادة في الدنيا والآخرة|صالح الفوزان|كبار العلماء — youtube.com (27:57)

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