Advice for preachers to adhere to the methodology of the Salaf in dealing with rulers

Question:
Your Eminence the Shaykh! We ask you to offer advice to the preachers, both those present and those absent, to adhere to the methodology of the righteous Salaf in da'wah (calling others to Islam) and other matters, such as dealing with rulers, education, and calling people?

Answer:
Yes. My advice to those present, to myself, and to everyone who hears my words is to fear Allah, to be a helper to the rulers in what is good, and to advise them in other matters through correspondence or meeting, and to supplicate for them in prostration and otherwise that Allah grant them success, guide them, help them in all good, and rectify their inner circle. Let not his goal be publicizing faults and criticizing, which many people have become accustomed to, or as al-Mas'ari and his like in London or others now claim. All of this is sedition, division, and misguidance. But if he has knowledge, he should advise through correspondence, contact, and calling to Allah, along with calling to steadfastness and holding firm to the truth, and calling people to steadfastness, not rebelling against the imams, not engaging in conflict, and not spreading evil. He combines the two goods. Yes.