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﴿ فَاسْأَلُوا أَهْلَ الذِّكْرِ إِن كُنتُمْ لَا تَعْلَمُونَ ﴾

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Are the common people among the people of shirk (associating partners with Allah) who worship graves out of ignorance considered among the people of the period of ignorance (al-fatra)?

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Question:
He says: Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, are the common people among the people of shirk (associating partners with Allah) who worship graves and seek nearness to them among those to whom the call has reached, or are they among the people of the period of ignorance (al-fatra)?

Answer:
Glory be to Allah, are they among the people of the period of ignorance? They memorize the Qur'an and hear it in their own language. The proof has reached them. The people of the period of ignorance are those who do not hear anything and to whom nothing has been conveyed. That is the one who is among the people of the period of ignorance, one who is cut off from the world. Where is such a person today? If someone is cut off from the world. I mean, the means of media now reach the east and the west. Has no one been left to whom it has not reached? Yes, but if it were possible that there is someone who has no technological means, and modern inventions have not reached him, and nothing has reached him, then he would be among the people of the period of ignorance. Yes.
Source قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، [9 /1350] هل عوام أهل الشرك الذين يعبدون القبور على جهل يكونون من أهل الفترة؟ الشيخ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com

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