Doing Shirk Unknowingly
@UmerQureshi brother but i remember that i asked a similar question that knowledge of gravity of sin affects someone’s punishment accordingly or not and @Irfan76 replied that it is an aspect of Allah’s justice that, a person’s situation, condition is kept in mind in their punishment and even in the Hadd punishment it is also considered, like in the punishment for slaves for Zina. So Allah would also keep aspects of justice for it surely and judge us accordingly. As they said in this thread Discussion 73520 • Reply 73611 So my question is that if a person knows that something is sin, but is totally unaware of the HUGE gravity of the sin, and thinks it to be a small sin, then acts accordingly, then how would he be punished with that same HUGE punishment, That is same for the one who understood it to be something to earn ETERNAL HELL. And by saying that he is unaware, i do not mean that some knowledge of it came to him and he realized it but did not pay heed to it. By being unaware i mean that not knowing the HUGE gravity by his straight abilities. Like for example a Man borns into an isolated, cut off tribe of Papua new guinea’s Islands, and is unaware of Islam, Christianity, and other religions and not connected to outer world. And according to his Fitrah, he understands that telling a lie is not right, or slapping someone without reason is not right, and by noticing signs of day and night and other natural phenomena with it’s precision, he understands that there is a creator and He is one. And to associate something with Him is not right, but he thinks places that thing in the same category of gravity as lie is not right, slapping is not right. And then he does all 3 of them thinking them to be of this much gravity. Then why would those 2 acts (slapping and lying won’t earn him eternal hell, even though he understands with his Fitrah for them to be wrong, but he earns eternal hell for the other thing (shirk) which he knew it to be wrong but understood it to be of the same gravity but here he earns ETERNAL HELL. We know very well! And it is very strongly evident that deterrence and knowing the consequences and gravity of a thing, effects deeply how a person becomes sensitive to something and also how he acts on that thing. If someone knows that something is of very small margin error then naturally he would be less sensitive to it, as compared to something he knows will earn him such great pain of eternal hell, then a person would be even scared to do that thing in his dreams.