Calling to Allah and Dealing with the Stubborn
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The questioner:
In these days, a group of people who are of our own skin are gathering. Well, thank you. To those who cling to [the truth], and I make the sinner guide himself, therefore we ask you, Honorable Shaykh, to look into this matter. May Allah make you a helper to the Muslims?
The Shaykh:
It is easy to argue for the call and to perform this task. The best performance, but there are people who are stubborn; they are not frightened and do not care about the call to good. These people, if they refuse, need strictness. The one who does not turn back, does not accept the truth, and is stubborn needs to be compelled. For this reason, Allah the Exalted says:[Al-'Ankabut 29:46] So the wrongdoers mocked [them] and turned away from the call to what is best. The stubborn wrongdoer, when he is told to pray, says, "No, I will pray, it is none of your business." This is where the call to what is best does not benefit him. He needs the evening and midday [prayers] until he prays or stops going to the mosque. As for a person who walks to the road and goes to the mosque, the callers to Allah and the committee do not accept anything but good. Absolutely not.
The questioner:
And what he says. What Allah willed. Amen.
In these days, a group of people who are of our own skin are gathering. Well, thank you. To those who cling to [the truth], and I make the sinner guide himself, therefore we ask you, Honorable Shaykh, to look into this matter. May Allah make you a helper to the Muslims?
The Shaykh:
It is easy to argue for the call and to perform this task. The best performance, but there are people who are stubborn; they are not frightened and do not care about the call to good. These people, if they refuse, need strictness. The one who does not turn back, does not accept the truth, and is stubborn needs to be compelled. For this reason, Allah the Exalted says:
And do not argue with the People of the Scripture except in a way that is best, except for those who commit injustice among them
وَلَا تُجَادِلُوا أَهْلَ الْكِتَابِ إِلَّا بِالَّتِي هِيَ أَحْسَنُ إِلَّا الَّذِينَ ظَلَمُوا مِنْهُمْThe questioner:
And what he says. What Allah willed. Amen.
Source
ندوات الجامع الكبير مع الأسئلة - 56 — archive.org (1:26:17)
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