Can committing shirk be forgiven?

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Ibrahim86

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Question:

After Allah (subhaanahu wa ta`aalaa) has said that He will forgive any sin other than shirk then how is a person to obtain forgiveness for this great sin?

Answer:

Allah (subhaanahu wa ta`aalaa) said, “Allah does not forgive that you make shirk with Him but he forgives everything other than that to whomever he chooses.” [4:48]

If the person falls into this sin of shirk, then he is a kafir and he has to come back into Islaam for a second time, and he has to make tawbah (seek repentance). But he should realise that Islaam wipes what came before it. As the Prophet (sallAllaahu ‘alaihi wasallam)has said in an authentic hadith, he asked the people and then he said, “Do you people not know that al Islaam destroys or wipes away that which preceded it.” Meaning that once a person comes into Islaam, his coming into Islaam serves as that which will wipe away his previous sins he fell into as well as the shirk he committed. This ayah is talking about the person who dies committing this crime of shirk.

Shaykh `Abdus Salaam al-Burjis

Audio Tape: Aqeedah Comes First by Shaikh Abdus Salam Burjis(rahimah ullaah) Article reference: AQD01004

http://www.salafipublications.com

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AyeshaL

AyeshaL

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Salaam,

The below is from the same source but I wanted to add it as I think it's important -

If the likes of this person is ignorant, due to him residing in a land which is cut off and nothing has reached him, then he is excused [for his ignorance]. As for the one who lives in the land of the Muslims, hearing the Qu'ran, hearing the Ahadeeth, hearing the speech of the people of knowledge [Scholars], then this one is not excused with ignorance; since the proof has been established upon him.

He said concerning the person who commits shirk al akbar based upon ignorance or because of it the person falls into this we have to look at what it is that he committed. We have to look at the crime he committed. He said if we find this shirk al akbar that he fell into and that he committed are from the things that are clear and apparent to all the people of al Islaam then he will have no excuse, his ignorance will not be an excuse for him. If he did something all the people of al Islaam know to be shirk, for example, for a person to make prostration to an idol so he would not have an excuse of ignorance. But if the person does something, that the majority of the people do not know about this thing, the majority of the people are not experts in understanding this affair this situation is different, he may be excused because of his ignorance. He said all we have to do is look at the issue of the sahabas what happened when some of them made halaal the drinking of wine. When these sahabas made halaal the drinking of kamar they did so based upon some of the ayat of the Qur’an that they understood.
So the other sahaba what they did was that they did not say that they were kuffar but instead they sent to them the proofs to show them that kamar was haram. When these proofs arrived to them, they accepted them and they came back to the truth and they left of that which they were doing. The shaikh said had they continued to be obstinate and the proof had come to them and they would have rejected the proofs, then they would have become kuffar because they would have been disbelieving in Allah (subhaanahu wa ta`aalaa) and his Messenger (sallAllaahu alaihi wasalam).

So the issue of being excused or having an excuse because of ignorance it becomes different depending upon the time, the place, the person and the condition
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