The Excuse of Ignorance | Shaykh Salih al-Fawzan

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🔥 Shaykh Salih al-Fawzan 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. ✅ Ahlus Sunnah rule by what is outwardly apparent from statements and actions — without inventing or fabricating excuses, whether in affirming a person’s Islam or in affirming a person’s apostasy. 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) ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📌 Understanding the Difference Between Description, Ruling, and Punishment This principle destroys the doubts spread by the Murjiah. It is one of the most important foundations in matters of kufr and shirk. 1️⃣ Description (al-waṣf): Whoever falls into clear major shirk or kufr is described as a mushrik or kāfir, based on his outward statement or action. We judge by what is apparent. 2️⃣ Ruling (al-ḥukm): A qualified judge confirms the act, verifies accountability, and checks if barriers exist (such as ignorance in hidden matters, or coercion). Then he issues the official ruling. 3️⃣ Punishment (al-ʿuqūbah): Before punishment, the person is invited to repent. If he refuses, the ḥadd is applied — and in cases of apostasy, that punishment is execution. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📌 Official Fatwa (Arabic): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-dHgjYnkg0 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✦ 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