(No one leaves the community by even a hand's breadth and dies except that he dies a death of the pre-Islamic age of ignorance) Is this likening to disbelief or to something else?

The questioner : If one leaves the community by a hand's breadth and dies this death of the pre-Islamic age of ignorance, is this likening to disbelief and not to anything else?

The Shaykh : No, the apparent view is that it does not reach the level of disbelief, but it is a likeness because in the pre-Islamic age of ignorance they had no lawful leader, even though they had leaders and chiefs, but they were scattered.