• of responsibility. This is believed to be 15 for males and 12 for females, or the onset of menstruation. However, Khalifites believed that the age of responsibility is 40 according to al-Ahqaf 46:15, and that anyone who dies before the age of 40 will go to heaven. They believed that if a man is wicked, he will not die before 40.

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