Is it permissible to abandon enjoining good and forbidding evil on the grounds that there are committees that enjoin good and forbid evil?

Question : Shaykh, we see the effects of the neglect of enjoining good and forbidding evil are apparent in the Muslim world, but some of the committed youth place the entire burden on certain committees, saying they have not fulfilled their role completely, and so on. What is your opinion, O Shaykh?

Answer : I say my opinion on this is that everyone is negligent. Not everyone has fulfilled the obligation upon them. Everyone in the Muslim communities and the rulers of the Muslims is negligent; they have not fulfilled the obligation. It is not befitting for us to attribute the negligence to a specific group or a specific committee. We are all negligent. Now, among the people, if a person sees a wrong from his brother, does he say, "O my brother, come, look, this is forbidden or not permissible? Fear Allah?" No. Does this mean that no one is prohibited from it? No one has prohibited it, and yet you do not find anyone who does this except the rare few.
In fact, I recall that a man said, "I left the mosque one day and saw a man whose garment was long. So I said, 'O my brother, look, this is not permissible, this is forbidden.' He said, 'I am a Bedouin.'"
How is this? This address is something we have become accustomed to, meaning we have been doing this since you enjoin what is right and forbid what is wrong, even though the man says, "I told him in every easy manner and with kindness." But I say: if people had been accustomed to enjoining what is right and forbidding what is wrong, this word would not have come from this common man; he would have known that this is the affair of all Muslims. You must enjoin what is right and forbid what is wrong. It is not required that "what is right" be a specific faction appointed by the rulers. Everyone enjoins what is right and forbids what is wrong, but with wisdom. And I always say that enjoining what is right is not the same as changing what is wrong. Enjoining what is right and forbidding what is wrong is not changing what is wrong. Changing what is wrong requires authority, but enjoining does not require authority; everyone enjoins and forbids. We have mentioned that there are three things that are confused by some people, though they are different: da'wah (calling others to Islam), enjoining what is right and forbidding what is wrong, and changing. They are different, and many people think they are one, but they are not.