The ruling on excusing ignorance regarding what is known from the religion by necessity
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The question about excusing ignorance is frequently asked, Your Eminence. This listener asks and says: I heard that one who insults the religion is a disbeliever. Does the one who knows that insulting the religion takes one out of the religion stand on the same footing as the one who does not know that it takes one out of the religion? In matters of the religion, a person is excused for his ignorance. Which matters are those in which a person is not excused for his ignorance? I ask Allah, then you, to explain this issue fully; because people are spreading the claim and saying: Excusing ignorance is valid, so they claim ignorance?
Answer: One who is among the Muslims is not excused for ignorance in such matters. Insulting the religion is apostasy from Islam. Abandoning the prayer is apostasy from Islam. Denying its obligation is apostasy from Islam. So is insulting Allah, insulting the Messenger, mocking Allah, or mocking the Messenger; all of this is apostasy. One is not excused for ignorance in these matters by claiming ignorance while he is among the Muslims; because this is well-known among the Muslims and is a necessity. It is a necessity to know this among the Muslims. It is not hidden from anyone. If he says: “Zina is lawful” or “Intoxicants are lawful,” that is also apostasy from Islam; because this matter is not hidden. As for a person in the pre-Islamic age of ignorance who does not know Islam and is not among the Muslims, his ruling is the ruling of the people of the period of ignorance. If he dies upon that, his affair is left to Allah. He will be tested on the Day of Resurrection. But among the Muslims, one who insults the religion, or mocks Allah or the Messenger, or abandons the prayer, or denies the obligation of the prayer, or denies the obligation of zakah, or denies the obligation of fasting Ramadan, or denies the obligation of Hajj with the ability to perform it, or says: “Zina is lawful” or “Intoxicants are lawful,” or that undutifulness to parents is lawful—all of this is apostasy. One is not excused for ignorance in it; because these are apparent matters of the religion, known from the religion by necessity, known by the particular and the general among the Muslims. Yes.
The presenter: May Allah reward you with good and do you good.
Answer: One who is among the Muslims is not excused for ignorance in such matters. Insulting the religion is apostasy from Islam. Abandoning the prayer is apostasy from Islam. Denying its obligation is apostasy from Islam. So is insulting Allah, insulting the Messenger, mocking Allah, or mocking the Messenger; all of this is apostasy. One is not excused for ignorance in these matters by claiming ignorance while he is among the Muslims; because this is well-known among the Muslims and is a necessity. It is a necessity to know this among the Muslims. It is not hidden from anyone. If he says: “Zina is lawful” or “Intoxicants are lawful,” that is also apostasy from Islam; because this matter is not hidden. As for a person in the pre-Islamic age of ignorance who does not know Islam and is not among the Muslims, his ruling is the ruling of the people of the period of ignorance. If he dies upon that, his affair is left to Allah. He will be tested on the Day of Resurrection. But among the Muslims, one who insults the religion, or mocks Allah or the Messenger, or abandons the prayer, or denies the obligation of the prayer, or denies the obligation of zakah, or denies the obligation of fasting Ramadan, or denies the obligation of Hajj with the ability to perform it, or says: “Zina is lawful” or “Intoxicants are lawful,” or that undutifulness to parents is lawful—all of this is apostasy. One is not excused for ignorance in it; because these are apparent matters of the religion, known from the religion by necessity, known by the particular and the general among the Muslims. Yes.
The presenter: May Allah reward you with good and do you good.
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