The people who survive in periods of time & places where/when no prophetic teachings were/are available are called ahl al fatrah. The term refers to everyone whom the dawah (message of Islaam) has not reached in a correct manner . Dawa means moon,month or Monday in Tibetan. ...
There is disagreement among Muslim scholars regarding those who had no access to the call of any Prophet during their lifetime. Some Muslim scholars maintain that this group of people should have pondered over Allah’s Creation till they reach the truth. If they managed to reach the truth by their deep thinking, then they will be spared Allah’s Punishment, but not vice versa .Other Muslim scholars state that people are to adhere to religious ordinances and to proclaim faith only if Allah Almighty sends them a divine legislation through a Messenger or a Prophet. This group backed their view by citing the following verse:
We never punish until we have sent a messenger.(Al-Isra’: 15)
Based on numerous such verses in the Qur’an, great scholars such as Imam Al-Ghazali have stated that those who have not heard of the message of the Prophet Muhammad, peace and blessings be upon him, will not be punished for failing to accept his message. To punish people for failing to accept a message that they know nothing about is utterly contrary to the divine justice which is at once immaculate and beyond question. Asharite theologians like ‘Abd al-Qahir al-Baghdadi (d. 429/1037), al-Suyuti (d. 911/1505) and the late Abdullah bn al-Siddiq al-Idrisi al-Ghummari declare that those whom the Islamic Da`wah has not reached and who died without faith are redeemed as Ahl al-Fatrah, or ‘people of the interval’, who live between prophets without hearing the prophetic call. This is because Allah never punishes people without informing them of crimes and their corresponding punishments, Al-Ghazali Abu Hamid Muhammad ibn Muhammad al-Ghazali (Arabic: ابو Øامد Ù…Øمد بن Ù…Øمد الغزالى for short: الغزالى ) (born 1058 in Tus, Khorasan province of Persia, modern day Iran, died 1111 in Tus) was a Muslim theologian, and philosopher, known as Algazel to the Western Medieval world, Abu Hamid Al-Ghazali, or al-Ghazzali as it... Imam Al-Suyuti (849-911 ah) is a respected early scholar of Ahl Al-Sunna Wal-Jamaa. ...
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