The ruling on the Committee for Promoting Virtue and Preventing Vice intervening in people's private affairs
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Question:
How should one respond to those who say that enjoining good and forbidding evil is an intrusion into the private affairs of others?
Answer:
Yes, it is an intervention, but it is a necessary intervention that Allah has commanded us to do. It is an intervention that Allah has commanded us to do for the sake of reform. We want good for others; we intervene for their benefit. The harm lies in leaving them alone. So this is a praiseworthy intervention, a lawful intervention. Allah has commanded it in many verses. Therefore, this intervention is necessary. We do not intervene in anything that Allah has not commanded us to do. This is what Allah, the Exalted and Sublime, has commanded us to do, so it is a lawful, praiseworthy intervention. It is in the interest of those who intervene in their affairs, and leaving them alone is harmful to them and a deception of them. Yes.
How should one respond to those who say that enjoining good and forbidding evil is an intrusion into the private affairs of others?
Answer:
Yes, it is an intervention, but it is a necessary intervention that Allah has commanded us to do. It is an intervention that Allah has commanded us to do for the sake of reform. We want good for others; we intervene for their benefit. The harm lies in leaving them alone. So this is a praiseworthy intervention, a lawful intervention. Allah has commanded it in many verses. Therefore, this intervention is necessary. We do not intervene in anything that Allah has not commanded us to do. This is what Allah, the Exalted and Sublime, has commanded us to do, so it is a lawful, praiseworthy intervention. It is in the interest of those who intervene in their affairs, and leaving them alone is harmful to them and a deception of them. Yes.
Source
كلمة في جامعة الطائف — alfawzan.live (20:52)
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