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﴿ فَاسْأَلُوا أَهْلَ الذِّكْرِ إِن كُنتُمْ لَا تَعْلَمُونَ ﴾

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Is it permissible for someone who is persistently committing a sin to forbid it to others?

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Question:
I say: Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, is it permissible for someone who is persistently committing a sin to forbid it to others?

Answer:
Yes, he is forbidden from it and he repents from it. He repents from it. If he leaves off enjoining good and forbidding evil, he adds one sin to another. Rather, he enjoins good and forbids evil, and even if he is falling into some of that, he repents to Allah (Mighty and Majestic) and does not persist in it. If it were not for the fact that
enjoin what is right, forbid what is wrongوَأْمُرْ بِالْمَعْرُوفِ وَانْهَ عَنِ الْمُنكَرِ
[Luqman 31:17]
, no one would enjoin good or forbid evil. We are all shortcoming, we all have errors, but we must not leave off enjoining good and forbidding evil, so that we combine the two crimes. Yes.
Source قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، [130 /641] هل لمن يذنب ذنبا مستمرا عليه أن ينهى عنه غيره؟ الشيخ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com

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