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﴿ فَاسْأَلُوا أَهْلَ الذِّكْرِ إِن كُنتُمْ لَا تَعْلَمُونَ ﴾

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I repent, then I sin again, and I fear that if I enjoin good and forbid evil, I will be a hypocrite?

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Question:
May Allah reward you, Your Eminence, father. The questioner says: I am a Muslim who wavers between commitment and otherwise. Sometimes I shave my beard, and other times I leave it. When I commit to enjoining good, my soul tempts me with the thought that I may have disobeyed my Lord on some day, so I leave off enjoining good and forbidding evil for fear of hypocrisy. What is

Answer:
This is from Shaytan. Leave it, leave it, and commit to growing your beard. If you shave it, repent to Allah and repeat your repentance, and do not despair of the mercy of Allah. Enjoin good and forbid evil, even if you have some sins. Do not combine two crimes: the sin and leaving off enjoining good and forbidding evil. So enjoin good and forbid evil, even if some things happen from you, but you have repentance to Allah the Exalted.
If no one
enjoin what is right, forbid what is wrongوَأْمُرْ بِالْمَعْرُوفِ وَانْهَ عَنِ الْمُنكَرِ
[Luqman 31:17]
were free of sin, no one would enjoin good and forbid evil. Here we make mistakes, and we are all overcome, and we all seek forgiveness from Allah, we repent to Him, and we enjoin good and forbid evil. Yes.
Source قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، [1286- 4717] أتوب ثم أذنب، وأخشى لو أمرت بالمعروف ونهيت عن المنكر أن أكون منافقا؟ — youtube.com

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