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Summary of Sunni concepts | Concept (221) | Ignorance and lack of legal discourse prevent atonement
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A summary of the concepts of Ahl al-Sunnah.
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Ignorance and the non-receipt of divine discourse as impediments to declaring someone an unbeliever.
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Ignorance can refer to several meanings.
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Among them is the absence of knowledge in the self, which is the intended meaning here.
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And believing something to be other than what it truly is.
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So, whoever falls into prohibition or transgression,
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whether it be disbelief, innovation, or outright sin,
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due to not having received the divine discourse and being ignorant of it,
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then the threat of punishment in this world and the Hereafter will not reach them.
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This punishment is threatened for the one who commits transgression.
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And one is not judged by it.
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Until the knowledge that establishes the proof against them reaches them.
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This is, in general terms.
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As for the details of this,
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Ibn al-Qayyim, may Allah have mercy on him, states regarding it:
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"This applies to the rulings concerning reward and punishment.
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As for the rulings in this world,
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they are based on the apparent state of affairs.
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Thus, the children of disbelievers and their insane individuals
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are considered disbelievers in the rulings of this world.
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They are subject to the ruling of their guardians."
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His words conclude.
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And similar to this is one who falls into manifest polytheism,
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such as prostrating to an idol,
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or slaughtering and making vows to other than Allah, the Exalted.
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Such a person is considered a polytheist in the rulings of this world.
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As for the worldly and otherworldly punishments,
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they will not befall them except after the removal of ignorance
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and the establishment of the proof.
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Allah the Almighty says:
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“Whosoever goeth right, it is only for (the good of) his own soul that he goeth right, and whosoever erreth, erreth only to its hurt. No laden soul can bear another's load, We never punish until we have sent a messenger.” (17:15)
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And punishment is deserved for two reasons:
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One is
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turning away from the proof and from intending it,
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or acting upon it and its requirements.
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And the second is
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stubbornly rejecting the proof and refusing to act upon it
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after knowing it and after it has been established against the stubborn one.
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The first,
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is the disbelief of turning away.
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And the second,
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is the disbelief of stubbornness and arrogance.
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As for falling into disbelief
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due to ignorance and the non-establishment of proof,
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or the inability to access it,
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this is the one whose punishment Allah negated for its perpetrator,
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until the proof of the messengers is established.
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A summary of the concepts of Ahl al-Sunnah.