Tafsir Az Zummar by Ibn Uthaymeen

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Shaykh Ibn Uthaymeen (RH) said:

“And when He says, ‘Yet most of them are unaware,’ He means ‘the vast majority of people,’ as He also states elsewhere: ‘but most people know not.’ This lack of knowledge necessarily entails a failure to practice or obey—so most are steeped in ignorance, and most stray into error. In ignorance they fail to perceive the truth; in error they reject it and do not live by it. In both cases one rightly says that knowledge is absent: for the ignorant, it is simply denied; for those in misguided error despite knowing, it is denied because they neither derive benefit from it nor put it into action."

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