Is the Ignorant Who Commits Shirk Considered a Muslim Until Proof Is Established? | Salih al-Fawzan

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📖 Description: al-Shaykh al-Imam al-Mufti Ibn Baz Exposes the Falsehood of the Murjiah 🔥 👎 The extremist Murjiah from the liberals, the later Ashʿariyyah, and even some pretenders to Salafiyyah claim that if a man prostrates to the sun, the moon, the stars, statues, or graves, calls upon the dead day and night for health and wealth, or even claims divinity for himself, he is still a “Muslim” who is merely ignorant and not a mushrik or a kafir even when these actions are witnessed openly! 👎 Aʿuthubillah. Shirk is from the clearest of matters, made obvious in every verse of the Qur’an. No one has an excuse of ignorance in this. To claim otherwise is the deception of the extremist Murjiah. ⚖️ Ignorance, coercion, and mistakes only prevent punishments They do not erase the names and labels of kufr and shirk that are applied based on outward actions when witnessed. Al-Hafidh Ibn Hajar al-ʿAsqalani (d. 852H) transmitted consensus on this principle, saying: وكلهم أجمعوا على أن أحكام الدنيا على الظاهر، والله يتولى السرائر “THEY ALL UNANIMOUSLY AGREED that worldly rulings are based upon what is outwardly apparent, while Allah alone takes charge of what lies within." Fath al-Bari (12/272) ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⚠️ Important: ⚠️ 📌 The issue of the excuse of ignorance has nothing to do with the worldly ruling. Rulings in the dunya are based upon outward actions and statements. Whoever commits clear major shirk is treated as a mushrik in this life. 🔹 Those who affirm the excuse of ignorance believe in the existence of Ahl al Fatrah. They are a people who did not receive the message of Islam correctly, so they are not held liable in the Hereafter. 🔸 Those who reject the excuse of ignorance deny Ahl al Fatrah and weaken the narrations concerning them, claiming that shirk is known to be evil by sound intellect and natural disposition, and therefore its doer is punished. 🛑 BOTH POSITIONS AGREE THAT THE ONE WHO COMMITS MAJOR SHIRK IS NOT A MUSLIM. The difference is whether such a person, if truly ignorant, will remain eternally in the Fire or not. 🚫 In our time, a faction of Murjiah has emerged promoting false beliefs. They claim that a person who commits any action or utters any statement of kufr remains a Muslim until personally informed. They argue that kufr only occurs in the heart, and they hide behind this issue in order to confuse others. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📌 Official Source (Arabic): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7btQuy2Gz8Q ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✦ Authentic and True — From the Scholars to You ✦ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ #Islam #Muslim #Quran #Hadith #Sunnah #Aqeedah #Aqidah #Tawheed #Kufr #Shirk #Takfir #IbnTaymiyyah #WahdatAlWujud #Hululiyyah #UnityOfExistence #Ashari #Jahmiyyah #AhlusSunnah #Salafi #Salafiyyah #IslamicCreed #CorrectBelief #IslamicRefutation #Ilm #Scholars #Fatwa #Manhaj #Bidah #IslamicKnowledge #IslamicReminder #TrueIslam #AuthenticIslam #Creed #Athari #Hanbali #Fiqh #Murjiah #Irja #SalihAlFawzan #IslamicBelief