Accountability Outside of Work and Its Effect on Negligence in Work

Question:
Your Excellency the Shaykh, my question is: Does my practice of enjoining good and forbidding evil in my life outside of work—meaning, does my enjoining and forbidding—make up for any of my negligence in my job? For example, a supervisor might go to the hospital, the traffic department, or any other agency. Does what I gain in public life outside of my work exempt us from much of the negligence?

Answer:
No, no, it does not exempt you from your negligence in your work, because your negligence in your work is forbidden, and performing your work is obligatory for you. The fact that you advise, preach, and remind is a recommended practice (sunnah) for you, because enjoining good and forbidding evil has a specific aspect: if enough people perform it, the sin falls off the rest, and it remains a recommended practice (sunnah) for the rest. So you are not doing a recommended practice (sunnah) and saying that it compensates for an obligation. No. Yes.