What is the difference between the obligatory and the forbidden in the excuse of ignorance?
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Question : Our Shaykh, regarding the excuse of the one who has an excuse and the ignorant person, you have just heard that a distinction is made between abandoning an obligation and the lifting of the legal ruling. Are there criteria distinguishing the excuse of the one with an excuse and the ignorant person in the logic of worship?
Answer : What is sought to be brought into existence is an obligatory act. And what is sought to be avoided is a prohibited harm.
Answer : What is sought to be brought into existence is an obligatory act. And what is sought to be avoided is a prohibited harm.
Source
ابن العثيمين - اللقاء المفتوح عن عشر ذي الحجة — archive.org (1:27:22)
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