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﴿ فَاسْأَلُوا أَهْلَ الذِّكْرِ إِن كُنتُمْ لَا تَعْلَمُونَ ﴾

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Excuse by Ignorance and Establishing the Proof on Those to Whom the Call Has Not Reached

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Question:
He says: What is the ruling on the one who does not remember, so he does not remember until it falls upon him? Is it that? Or is he called to his affair? Knowing that the one who sees that the one who did not remember the Muslims, or was silent regarding their affair, or considered what he had and disliked it, then did I act toward that? So I am not shy.

Answer:
The one who is among the people of graves who do not understand until the proof is established against them in a state of confusion. From the perspective that what he said is correct and the proof has not reached them, they need the establishment of the proof. For a person in an isolated community to whom nothing of the call reaches, and who does not hear the Qur'an and does not hear the hadiths, this is his statement: they do not remember until it is established against them, because the proof has not reached them.
As for if they are in the midst of the Muslims, hearing the Qur'an, hearing the hadiths, and reading the books, then these are the ones upon whom fitnah (trial, discord or temptation) has flown, and as long as the proof is silent upon them and they worship other than Allah, then they are disbelievers, and whoever agrees with them on this and says he excuses them, then he is like them.
Source قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، 13/7 شرح الأصول الثلاثة / صالح الفوزان — youtube.com (1:04:43)

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