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There is hope for him if he believed in a creator, you don't know whether the unadulterated message of Islam reached him, especially in an age of great propaganda, lies and deception.I'm pretty much certain he believed in God but... I think he was one of those people who believed in God but don't actually have a religion.
"Our lord do not make us a trial for those who disbelieve" 60:5.
The trial here has many facets, that includes becoming the source of oppression when they go on their rampage as the poor Gazans are experiencing and many Muslims throughout history.
But the worst form of trial for us is that we become such losers and corrupt people as we currently are as Muslims, they reject the faith based on that, which of course many do.
How many are put off by sectarianism of Muslims mostly useless squabbles over minor differences not even the major ones or some overzealous hikmah lacking idiot who tells a new muslimah revert she needs to divorce her husband, or the judgemental haram police crowd.
The fact that Allah put that ayah in a form of supplication goes to show the seriousness of this issue and that this is going to be something rampant that refuge should be sought from, and the best supplications are the ones in the Qur'an.
As a famous scholar put it, they didn't reject Islam, like that poor guy that was about to revert until some duaats told him he needs to divorce his wife which will result in him loosing his kids, and he rejected that false Islam.