Explanation of the Rule: Not Declaring a Specific Person a Disbeliever Unless the Conditions Are Met and the Preventing Factors Are Absent
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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, this questioner says: The scholars say that a specific person is not declared a disbeliever if he falls into disbelief unless the conditions are present, the preventing factors are absent, and the proof is established. I would like a comprehensive explanation of this statement from your eminence.
Answer:
This is a question about what someone else said; I did not say it. Ask the one who said it. I say: If disbelief becomes apparent from a person and he is not excused, then he is declared a disbeliever. This refers to the one from whom disbelief becomes apparent, whether by word or deed; he is ruled to be a disbeliever.
Unless there is an excuse that prevents it, such as being coerced, or being among those who are excused due to ignorance. Not everyone is excused due to ignorance. The one who lives among Muslims, hears the Qur'an, hears the hadiths, and hears the words of the scholars is not excused, because the proof has reached him. The one who is excused is the one to whom the proof has not reached. The proof has not reached him because he lives in a remote area or in lands cut off from the lands of Muslims, where nothing of the Qur'an or the Sunnah reaches him. Yes.
The presenter:
May Allah reward you,
Honorable Shaykh, this questioner says: The scholars say that a specific person is not declared a disbeliever if he falls into disbelief unless the conditions are present, the preventing factors are absent, and the proof is established. I would like a comprehensive explanation of this statement from your eminence.
Answer:
This is a question about what someone else said; I did not say it. Ask the one who said it. I say: If disbelief becomes apparent from a person and he is not excused, then he is declared a disbeliever. This refers to the one from whom disbelief becomes apparent, whether by word or deed; he is ruled to be a disbeliever.
Unless there is an excuse that prevents it, such as being coerced, or being among those who are excused due to ignorance. Not everyone is excused due to ignorance. The one who lives among Muslims, hears the Qur'an, hears the hadiths, and hears the words of the scholars is not excused, because the proof has reached him. The one who is excused is the one to whom the proof has not reached. The proof has not reached him because he lives in a remote area or in lands cut off from the lands of Muslims, where nothing of the Qur'an or the Sunnah reaches him. Yes.
The presenter:
May Allah reward you,
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، 01- شرح نواقض الاسلام - مقدمة -الشيخ صالح الفوزان - مشروع كبار العلماء — youtube.com (1:00:19)
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