Combining Enjoining Good with Deficiencies
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The questioner:
The questioner says: Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. He says: Allah the Exalted said:[As-Saf 61:2] do you do?
The Shaykh:
And it is a great sin in the sight of Allah that you say what you do not do. The hadith of the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) is a warning for the one who commands people to do good but does not do it himself, and forbids people from doing evil but does it himself. So if we strive to do good deeds and leave off major sins, but despite that we still commit them, does this mean
The questioner:
Honorable Shaykh, that we should stop advising people and calling them to Allah? And how do we combine the two?
The Shaykh:
The scholars (may Allah have mercy on them) mentioned that it is obligatory to enjoin good, even if the one commanding it has some deficiency or fault, or commits some violations. He enjoins good and does not combine two crimes: committing a sin or leaving off the enjoining of good. If the one who enjoins good were only a perfect, pure person with no deficiency, I do not know how the enjoining of good would have happened, because no one is free from deficiency and shortcoming. We seek forgiveness from Allah and turn to Him in repentance. So one enjoins good even if he has some deficiency, and repents to Allah (Mighty and Majestic). Yes. And Allah the Exalted knows best, and may Allah send prayers and peace upon our Prophet Muhammad and upon his family and companions.
The questioner says: Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. He says: Allah the Exalted said:
O you who have believed, why do you say what
يَا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا لِمَ تَقُولُونَ مَا لَاThe Shaykh:
And it is a great sin in the sight of Allah that you say what you do not do. The hadith of the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) is a warning for the one who commands people to do good but does not do it himself, and forbids people from doing evil but does it himself. So if we strive to do good deeds and leave off major sins, but despite that we still commit them, does this mean
The questioner:
Honorable Shaykh, that we should stop advising people and calling them to Allah? And how do we combine the two?
The Shaykh:
The scholars (may Allah have mercy on them) mentioned that it is obligatory to enjoin good, even if the one commanding it has some deficiency or fault, or commits some violations. He enjoins good and does not combine two crimes: committing a sin or leaving off the enjoining of good. If the one who enjoins good were only a perfect, pure person with no deficiency, I do not know how the enjoining of good would have happened, because no one is free from deficiency and shortcoming. We seek forgiveness from Allah and turn to Him in repentance. So one enjoins good even if he has some deficiency, and repents to Allah (Mighty and Majestic). Yes. And Allah the Exalted knows best, and may Allah send prayers and peace upon our Prophet Muhammad and upon his family and companions.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، 141/79 شرح زاد المستقنع/ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com (21:13)
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