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﴿ فَاسْأَلُوا أَهْلَ الذِّكْرِ إِن كُنتُمْ لَا تَعْلَمُونَ ﴾

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The obligation regarding the body’s restriction of its work to reporting evil

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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. These are many questions on one subject; this is one of them. He says: Our noble Shaykh, may Allah prolong your life in health and well-being, and honor you with His obedience and be pleased with you. It is not hidden from your eminence the virtue of enjoining good and forbidding evil, and the divine punishments that follow leaving evil when one sees it. Everyone has heard the decision issued that restricts the work of the body’s members to merely reporting evil, and prevents them from forbidding evil by hand. His question is: What is our obligation? And how do we clear our conscience before Allah, and then before society, regarding what has been issued?

Answer:
The obligation for the one who has the ability is to contact the authorities, to call them and ask them to cancel this decision or suspend this decision. And the one who does not have the ability should call upon Allah to guide them and grant them success in the truth, and to turn them back to the truth in this matter. Yes.
Source المنتقى من أخبار سيد المرسلين 09-07-1437هـ — alfawzan.live (1:02:48)

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