Converting enjoining good and forbidding evil from a collective obligation to an individual obligation
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The questioner:
I said: O Shaykh, I seek refuge in Allah from the people of knowledge.
The Shaykh:
Some of them are righteous.
The questioner:
That is sufficient. Indeed,
The Shaykh:
it is an important topic.
The questioner:
or that he should denounce it.
The Shaykh:
Does it change from being a collective obligation to an individual obligation? It never changes. It does not change from being a collective obligation to an individual obligation; it remains as it is. However, if the number is small, he demands that the rulers increase the number and explains to them that the current number is not sufficient to cover the community, so it is necessary to increase the number of members. Yes.
I said: O Shaykh, I seek refuge in Allah from the people of knowledge.
The Shaykh:
Some of them are righteous.
The questioner:
That is sufficient. Indeed,
The Shaykh:
it is an important topic.
The questioner:
or that he should denounce it.
The Shaykh:
Does it change from being a collective obligation to an individual obligation? It never changes. It does not change from being a collective obligation to an individual obligation; it remains as it is. However, if the number is small, he demands that the rulers increase the number and explains to them that the current number is not sufficient to cover the community, so it is necessary to increase the number of members. Yes.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، كلمات متنوعة-07-واجب المسلم نحو نفسه وإخوانه \ صالح الفوزان \ كبار العلماء — youtube.com (27:18)
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