Denouncing the wrongs prevalent in the streets and markets

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Question:
Your Eminence the Shaykh, the questioner says: What is your Eminence’s guidance regarding the phenomenon of wrongs spreading in the streets, markets, and homes, especially since we are in the season of blessings and rains? May Allah grant you success in all good.

Answer:
It is obligatory to denounce it, to denounce what has been lost from the ball. It is obligatory for the tyrant to denounce it, and to monitor this matter. Allah says:

The believing men and believing women are allies of one another. They enjoin what is right

وَالْمُؤْمِنُونَ وَالْمُؤْمِنَاتُ بَعْضُهُمْ أَوْلِيَاءُ بَعْضٍ يَأْمُرُونَ بِالْمَعْرُوفِ

[At-Tawbah 9:71]

It is obligatory for the tyrants to monitor this, in denouncing what is wrong, even by what is known in the markets, on the roads, in places of buying and selling, in every place. And it is obligatory for the state, may Allah guide it, to carry this out through the committees so that they prevent the wrong. It is obligatory for the state to fulfill its duty, and for every individual to fulfill his duty, because Allah generalized this for everyone.

The believing men and believing women are allies of one another. They enjoin what is right and forbid what is wrong

وَالْمُؤْمِنُونَ وَالْمُؤْمِنَاتُ بَعْضُهُمْ أَوْلِيَاءُ بَعْضٍ يَأْمُرُونَ بِالْمَعْرُوفِ وَيَنْهَوْنَ عَنِ الْمُنكَرِ

[At-Tawbah 9:71]

He, the Exalted, said:

You are the best nation

كُنتُمْ خَيْرَ أُمَّةٍ

[Ali 'Imran 3:110]

the best of nations

for mankind. You enjoin what is right and forbid what is wrong

لِلنَّاسِ تَأْمُرُونَ بِالْمَعْرُوفِ وَتَنْهَوْنَ عَنِ الْمُنكَرِ

[Ali 'Imran 3:110]

So the state has its duty in denouncing wrongs and enjoining good, and every individual has his duty according to his obedience.

Source التوحيد فضله وأنواعه وحكمه — islamhouse.com (37:00)

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