Advice for the People of Hisbah and the People of the Press Regarding the Accusations Directed at Them
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Question:
The many questions asked about the accusations in the newspapers and the like against the committees for enjoining good and forbidding evil, and the false and invalid accusations and words directed at them. What is your advice, O our Shaykh, to those who work in this institution, and to the people of the press?
Answer:
Patience. Our advice to the believers and the people of enjoining good and forbidding evil is to continue on their path, for they are on a correct path. They must continue and be patient with what has befallen them. O my son, establish the prayer, enjoin what is right, forbid what is wrong, and be patient with what strikes you. They will be struck by what strikes them from the harm of people, from the talk about them, from the denunciation, and from... but patience is necessary. So advise one another to truth, and advise one another to patience, for those who advise one another to truth will face blame and will face advice.
Advising one another to truth is enjoining good and forbidding evil. It is the right of the one who advises to truth that he must inevitably receive something from people.
Were the messengers safe from people? Was our Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him) safe from people and their talk about him? He was not safe (peace and blessings be upon him). We have in him a model and an example.[Fussilat 41:43] We must be cautious, and we do not [do] like the sayings of these people. The consequences, evil, and sin of their words return to them, praise be to Allah. And this does not harm the people of faith and the people of hisbah; this talk does not harm them. Hmm.
The presenter:
May Allah reward you.
The many questions asked about the accusations in the newspapers and the like against the committees for enjoining good and forbidding evil, and the false and invalid accusations and words directed at them. What is your advice, O our Shaykh, to those who work in this institution, and to the people of the press?
Answer:
Patience. Our advice to the believers and the people of enjoining good and forbidding evil is to continue on their path, for they are on a correct path. They must continue and be patient with what has befallen them. O my son, establish the prayer, enjoin what is right, forbid what is wrong, and be patient with what strikes you. They will be struck by what strikes them from the harm of people, from the talk about them, from the denunciation, and from... but patience is necessary. So advise one another to truth, and advise one another to patience, for those who advise one another to truth will face blame and will face advice.
Advising one another to truth is enjoining good and forbidding evil. It is the right of the one who advises to truth that he must inevitably receive something from people.
Were the messengers safe from people? Was our Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him) safe from people and their talk about him? He was not safe (peace and blessings be upon him). We have in him a model and an example.
Nothing is said to you, [O Muhammad], except what was already said to the messengers before you
مَّا يُقَالُ لَكَ إِلَّا مَا قَدْ قِيلَ لِلرُّسُلِ مِن قَبْلِكَThe presenter:
May Allah reward you.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، محاضرات في العقيدة والدعوة-099-نواقض الإسلام|صالح الفوزان|كبار العلماء — youtube.com (1:07:46)
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