A discussion regarding the people of the period of ignorance who were not reached by the call of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him).

The questioner : , O Shaykh.

The Shaykh : ... .

The questioner : O Shaykh.

The Shaykh : Yes?

The questioner: Regarding the mention of ... this issue?

The Shaykh: The conveying of the call, the call of your Prophet.

Another questioner: ... those on the right.

The Shaykh: No, not those on the right. Today there are people of the period of ignorance; do you hear about the inhabitants of the North Pole and the South Pole?

The questioner: Yes.

The Shaykh: These people—and many Americans and others—have not been reached by the call. In reality, this issue was raised a few years ago when I was at the Islamic University. The intention behind "being reached by the call" is not that its name reaches them without its reality, but rather that the call with which the Messenger was sent reaches a people, whether it be the Seal of the Prophets and Messengers or those sent before the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him). Imam Muslim narrated in his *Sahih* from the hadith of Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him), who said: The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: . So his statement (peace and blessings be upon him): means in accordance with the reality of his call, or in accordance with what this call has deviated into regarding some Muslims who have gone astray in understanding it, whether far or near, let alone the astrayness of the disbelievers, such as the polytheists and the monks who intentionally convey the Islamic call to their people in contradiction to its creed and the reality of its matter?!
Perhaps you all know that most of the Christians do not know about the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) except that he loved women, and that he married more than nine of them. This is how their priests and monks depict our Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) to those disbelieving peoples. So, have these people been reached by the call of the Messenger when they do not know about it except that the Prophet of Islam is a man who loves women, and that is all?! There is no doubt that these people have not been reached by the call. And I assume, and this assumption is a reality, that whoever knows Islam in its pure creed, namely "There is no god but Allah" in its correct meaning, and that Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah, likewise; then the call has reached him. If he does not believe, then he is undoubtedly a disbeliever, as he (peace be upon him) said, and he is in the Fire. So now, the name of the Islamic call has reached the ears of many non-Arabs, but its reality has not yet reached them. Therefore, we said "people of the period of ignorance," meaning either those who have not been reached by the call in its reality. Because the Prophet said: , and this is like his statement (peace be upon him): . So whoever sees the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) other than his descriptions and characteristics as he was during his lifetime, he has not seen him, because he would have seen Iblis. So if someone sees him, for example, as an old man, as has happened to us often with some people, when they narrate to us, they say: "I saw the Messenger yesterday in a dream," and tells a long story. How did you see him, my brother? He says: "I saw him—what Allah willed—an old man, his face overflowing with light, his beard white, and so on!!" We say: You did not see the Messenger, because his Companions say: "What has he (Blessed and Exalted is He) to do with whiteness?" Or he saw him walking with a cane, whereas he used to walk as if he were descending from a slope. So two hadiths lead to one reality: whoever sees him in a dream as he was in his life, and whoever hears of him as he was in his call; both of them fall under the hadith. The one who saw him with his true attributes has truly seen him, and the one who was reached by the call in its reality has been reached by it. If he does not believe, then he has disbelieved... as came in the hadith.
Yes, Adnan, what did you find?

The questioner: O Shaykh, ... the Rafidah.

The Shaykh : How?

The questioner: Do the Rafidah's common people and ignorant ones fall under this?

The Shaykh: If you have been negligent with them, then they are like that. If you have been negligent with them, and they are Arabs like you, not ... like the non-Arab Iranians who do not understand the Arabic language; if the call of the Rafidah, with whom you have been afflicted in your own homeland, has not reached them, then you are responsible for them, not they.