(Ahl al Fatarat). These are the people to whom no prophet or messenger was sent. They have not heard or received or had contact with them. They lived in isolation or in a time 'between' messengers and will be judged based on what knowledge of the Divine they attained to in observance of their natural surroundings. They fall into a different category than the rest of humanity and are not judged on the basis of 'belief' or 'disbelief' while they inhabited the earth.
