448. TAKFEER – among the Sahabah and the tabi’een and the tabi’ tabi’een, there was nothing called preventions of Takfeer except Ikrah (duress) and ‘Adam Al Qasad (error and mistake), the excuse of ignorance and ta’weel was only amongst the murji’ah. There is nothing called excuse of ta’weel for Shirk Akbar that is from Al Masaa’il al jaliyyah, how can it be that the ‘alim has an excuse to commit shirk by his ta’weel, yet we call the jahil kafir by the same ta’weel? What is known by necessity from the deen, the alim and the jahil are equal in it, and whatever is Shirk Akbar known from the deen by necessity from the masaa’il al jaliyyah, there is no way that you can be excused because of ignorance or ta’weel, Allah (swt) warned us that these two excuses will never be accepted on the day of judgement, because that is known even by the Fitrah, and Allah made us testify to the Tawheed before “in case they claim on the day of judgement that they were ignorant or they claim (by ta’weel) that their parents made them jews or Christians” it will never be accepted from them. The ta’weel is only accepted in matters where there is a legitimate ta’weel i.e. it is a matter of ijtihad in the first place, it cannot be in a matter that is not open to interpretation in the first place. Umar ibn Khattab threatened Qudama ibn Madh’un with death as an apostate if he did not repent, and if he repented that he will lash him, he did not give him any excuse of ta’weel. The ignorance and ta’weel will only be accepted as a temporary prevention until it is lifted in matters that are from Al Masaa’il Al Khafiyyah, i.e. that there is either no direct text for it, or that it’s reality is only known by a few people, e.g. it is not known by everyone that having candles in front of you when you eat is a form of worship for the Christians and so is kufr, it is not known that Nike is a name of a god and to wear it’s name is kufr, or the shirk of the superstition about horse shoes etc they are not known, these matters are not jalie, they are khafie. etc. Matters that are Shirk Akbar from Al Masaa’il Al Jaliyyah cannot be excused by ta’weel, e.g. the one who makes sujud in front of an idol even by ta’weel, nobody is blamed if they call him a kafir, the prophet (saw) said, “do not make sujud in front of an idol or people will call you Mushrik.” We judge by the apparent not by the Batin. ---------------------- from my notes during Q&A with Sheikh Omar Bakri Muhammad
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