The Principle of the Excuse of Ignorance, Individual Takfir, and Ruling by What is Apparent

✍️ STATEMENT:
Shaykh Salih Al al-Shaykh said:

"Here, if the hujjah has not been established, are the grave worshippers declared kuffar or not? The answer: Yes. Whoever commits shirk is a mushrik. Major shirk, whoever commits it, is a mushrik.

The establishment of the hujjah is only a condition for the obligation of punishment.

Just as we call the Jews and the Christians kuffar, even if some of them never heard of the Prophet at all, likewise are the people of idols, graves, and similar matters. Whoever commits shirk is a mushrik, and the rulings of the mushrikin are applied to him in this world.

However, if the hujjah has not been established upon him, then it is not definitively stated that he will be in the Fire if he dies. Rather, his affair is withheld until the hujjah is established upon him before Allah.

So there is a clear distinction between conditioning punishment upon the establishment of the hujjah, and wrongly suspending the outward ruling of shirk upon a person.

Whoever commits major shirk is a mushrik, and the worldly rulings follow from that: no seeking forgiveness for him, his slaughtered animal is not eaten, no sacrifice is offered on his behalf, and similar rulings.

As for ruling upon him with kufr inwardly and outwardly in an absolute sense, then this is withheld until the hujjah is established. If the hujjah is not established upon him, then his affair is with Allah."

📚 SOURCE:
Al-Ajwibah wa al-Buḥūth wa al-Mudārasāt al-Mushtamilah ʿalayhā al-Durūs al-ʿIlmiyyah, vol. 1, page 41
https://tinyurl.com/salihalshaykh

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Deception of the Murjiʾah
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The Murjiʾah use deceptive tactics to confuse people.
They use the same terms the scholars use — but with completely different meanings.
This is one of their satanic tricks.

They say:
“Ibn Taymiyyah and Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Wahhāb allowed the excuse of ignorance.”

Yes — that is true.
But the difference between the two Imāms and the extreme Murjiʾah is massive.

According to the Imāms:
The excuse of ignorance means the person will not be punished eternally in the Hereafter if the proof had not reached him. Rather according to these scholars, the truly ignorant mushrik will be tested in the Akhirah by having a messenger sent to them.

According to the Extreme Murjiʾah:
The excuse of ignorance means the person who falls into major shirk is still considered a Muslim in this life.

Likewise, they twist the meaning of establishing the proof:

According to the Imāms:
Establishing the proof in clear matters is only needed to carry out the punishment — not to label him a disbeliever.

According to the Extreme Murjiʾah:
They claim the proof must be established just to even call him a kāfir — even if he worships other than Allah.

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