A Muslim Convert Once Before

بِسۡمِ ٱللهِ ٱلرَّحۡمَـٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ Imam Abu Ishaq Ibrahim ibn Musa ash-Shathibi ( r.a. ), in his al-I’itiswam , said, “True fairness is to regard all the a’immah as worthy; whoever follows the madzhab of a mujtahid because he has not attained the level of ijtihad , is not harmed by the fact that other a’immah differ from his own.”

بِسۡمِ ٱللهِ ٱلرَّحۡمَـٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ Imam Abu Ishaq Ibrahim ibn Musa ash-Shathibi, ( r.a. ) wrote, on Allah ( s.w.t. ) not punishing a people until they have received Guidance, “It has become amongst His Sunnah that He does not take anyone to account for their bad deeds until a Messenger has been Sent to them.  If firm proofs have been established and delivered, then whoever desires, let them believe and whoever rejects, let them reject, and to each is an appropriate Reward.”