What is the validity of the statement that enjoining good and forbidding evil is exclusive to the members of the committees?
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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, he says: Some people have appeared and stated that enjoining good and forbidding evil is exclusive to the members of the committees, and that no one else performs it. He asks: Is this statement correct?
Answer:
Enjoining good and forbidding evil by hand, and the removal of the evil, this is specific to the establishment of the committees. As for forbidding evil by the tongue, by the tongue, and by explanation, advice, guidance, and reporting to the authorities, this is obligatory upon everyone who is able to do it. If you see an evil, change it with your hand. This is for those in authority and their deputies. If he is not able, then with his tongue. If he is not able, then with his heart, and that is the weakest of faith. It is necessary to forbid the evil, even if only with the heart. It is necessary to forbid the evil, even if only with the heart, as a last resort. Yes.
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, he says: Some people have appeared and stated that enjoining good and forbidding evil is exclusive to the members of the committees, and that no one else performs it. He asks: Is this statement correct?
Answer:
Enjoining good and forbidding evil by hand, and the removal of the evil, this is specific to the establishment of the committees. As for forbidding evil by the tongue, by the tongue, and by explanation, advice, guidance, and reporting to the authorities, this is obligatory upon everyone who is able to do it. If you see an evil, change it with your hand. This is for those in authority and their deputies. If he is not able, then with his tongue. If he is not able, then with his heart, and that is the weakest of faith. It is necessary to forbid the evil, even if only with the heart. It is necessary to forbid the evil, even if only with the heart, as a last resort. Yes.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، [697 -939] ما صحة قول: إن الأمر بالمعروف والنهي عن المنكر هو خاص برجال الهيئات؟ - الشيخ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com
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