If one’s apostasy is due to ignorance, is he to be killed?
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The questioner : If one’s apostasy is due to ignorance?
The Shaykh : This is sometimes said: it is clarified to him if his apostasy is due to ignorance. This is clarified to him, as in the case of Mu‘adh, who did it knowingly, because the man was a Jew who then embraced Islam, and the Jews know the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) as their own sons know him. So if we know that his apostasy is due to ignorance, we clarify it to him, and then if he persists in his apostasy, we kill him.
The Shaykh : This is sometimes said: it is clarified to him if his apostasy is due to ignorance. This is clarified to him, as in the case of Mu‘adh, who did it knowingly, because the man was a Jew who then embraced Islam, and the Jews know the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) as their own sons know him. So if we know that his apostasy is due to ignorance, we clarify it to him, and then if he persists in his apostasy, we kill him.