Is the ignorant person excused in matters of shirk (associating partners with Allah)?

Question:
Some people say that we must excuse the one who worships Allah out of ignorance, and worships others alongside Him; because he did so, and he was slaughtering, and he did not know that it was an act of worship.

Answer:
He hears the Qur'an, my brother. He does not hear the Qur'an that forbids shirk (associating partners with Allah) and threatens with punishment for it? He does not hear the lectures? He does not hear the lessons that are being broadcast and transmitted now? How can he be ignorant?
He is not ignorant, but he does not want to; he wants to remain as he is. The proof has been established against him. If he had not heard anything at all, if he were cut off and had not heard anything said, then this could be said of him: he is one of the people of the Fitr (those who have not received the message), and Allah knows best about him on the Day of Resurrection. But he hears the Qur'an, he hears the hadiths, he hears tawhid (the oneness of Allah) and the call to Allah, and he says, "I am ignorant." Until when will the ignorance last? Yes. The ignorance of the one who has not heard anything, the one who is cut off from the scholars, is the one who is said to be ignorant. Yes.