Advice to the Youth and Preachers Regarding Abandoning Threats with Weapons

The questioner:
Before the remaining questions, we would like to complete what preceded regarding the youth. It was Abu 'Umar 'Abd al-Rahman, and I had also mentioned him after I stood up from the prayer. This matter is that some of the youth, and the worst of the soldiers, the liberation is. The intensity of jealousy and the desire for the truth itself. That they openly declare things. The rulers judge them until they cover them up or kill them. There is no power and no strength except with Allah.

The Shaykh:
This is something that should not be done. It is incumbent upon the preachers, whether from the youth or others, that their ambition be directing people to good, guiding them to the truth, and explaining what the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) established of guidance, so that the sincere Muslims may be known, and so that people may become aware of the falsehood they are upon. As for threatening with weapons, rebellion, and killing, this harms the da'wah in every place. Be safe in the da'wah, and when the rulers of the lands know that these people are threatening, they will pursue them, eliminate them, and warn against them. This is a spiritual matter. It is incumbent upon the preachers that this not be their mission, and that they turn to this path. However, they should be patient in the da'wah, just as the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) was patient in Makkah, and his Companions were patient for thirteen years without threatening with weapons. They called people, secretly and openly, to the oneness of Allah and obedience to Allah. And as for those in Madinah, when the state was established and Allah revealed for them regarding fighting, He mentioned jihad after that. So the preachers to Allah in any place, here, or in Egypt, or in the Levant, or in any place, precede the preachers to Allah the Glorious and Exalted in advice, and directing the Ummah to good. They correspond and correspond with good, clear correspondence. They begin their letters with the saying of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), saying to them: "I only intend good, and Allah has made lawful for you the good by which you will have happiness in this world and the Hereafter. By it your state will be straight, and by it you will be successful in what brings you honor and glory. By it your affairs will be rectified, and by it you will be happy in the Hereafter as well, you and the society as a whole." This is how the da'wah is, with good speech, good methods, and gentleness with people, because this is what the da'wah requires, and it helps its people, and it makes its people known, and it makes people see, and it benefits their fathers after that. The rulers do not fear them; rather, they may even support them if they see from them advice and refraining from preparing to fight them or demonstrating against them or the like of that.
So my advice to all the youth and all the preachers is that they not use force in this path, and that they not seek weapons, and that they not hoard weapons, for this is contrary to the da'wah, and it is one of the causes of the sharpening of the spear of dawn, and the preachers of the midday and misguidance should encourage the leaders to eliminate the preachers, and to demand them in every place until the da'wah ends from the garden. This is all wrong, and it is all an error. The obligation upon the youth in every place, and upon the preachers who are not youth, even if they are gray-haired, is to care for the da'wah, and that it be established with the speech of Allah and the speech of the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him), with good speech and good methods, in the societies, in the mosques, in the schools, in the universities, with the rulers, with the notables, with good correspondence, with pleasant correspondence, that illuminates the hearts and guides them to the truth and guidance. This is my advice to everyone. I hope that whoever heard it will convey it to those behind them to the end of the earth. And I ask Allah for everyone, and I ask Allah for safety, real with one.

The presenter:
O Allah, amen, O Lord of the worlds. Yes. And one of the brothers came with this paper. He said: To the brothers in Allah, from the one who is poor to his Lord, Faisal ibn al-Hamud ibn 'Ali ibn Muhammad ibn Ahmad from Kuwait. I ask you for supplication, as the Chosen One (peace and blessings be upon him) said, a supplication says: And for you, and for one like you. I ask you for supplication. And may Allah make us and you steadfast, if it was. O Allah, amen. And may He make us and you steadfast on the straight path. O Allah, amen. And may He make us and you steadfast on guidance.