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﴿ فَاسْأَلُوا أَهْلَ الذِّكْرِ إِن كُنتُمْ لَا تَعْلَمُونَ ﴾

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A Proselytizing Letter and Evils in the Hospital, and the Obligation to Forbid Evil

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The questioner:
One man brought me a paper saying, "The car on the north side is being towed. Please be advised that traffic will tow it if..." Hello. Yes, the car on the north side is being towed now. Please advise our relatives in the car that they are being towed now. I think it is traffic, so please... let the owner get down. The one in the middle, this means blocking the road, meaning... Mm. In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. In one of the local companies, one of the good brothers found a letter posted on the wall, addressed to one of the Christian missionaries. He discovered that this missionary works with them, and he is English. I tried to photograph this letter, which has a cross drawn at its beginning. It is, of course, in English, but it is not with us now. What is your opinion regarding this action? And should we send this letter to Your Eminence?

The Shaykh:
Yes, whoever finds something published with a cross, or on the walls, or distributed with a cross, may Allah reward him well. He should send it to us, or to the Commission, or to the Ministry of Justice, or the Council of Judiciary, or any department he finds useful to contact.

The questioner:
What is Your Eminence's opinion, and what can we do? There are evils that we cannot forbid, not even with our tongues. For example, the free mixing of men and women and the display of adornment by women at King Faisal Specialist Hospital, where there are evils that we cannot mention in this forum. We ask Your Eminence to answer this question, and we ask that contact be made with the senior officials to remove this evil.

The Shaykh:
This involves much prayer. We ask Allah to benefit him through the means. The believer speaks the truth and calls to it, even if it is not accepted from him. This is just as the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Whoever among you sees an evil, let him change it with his hand,"
if he cannot, then with his tongue; if he cannotفإن لم يستطع فبلسانه، فإن لم يستطع
Sunan an-Nasa'i 5008Sahih (Darussalam)
"with his heart, and I do not know, so the most weak of faith is that." A person does not say what he heard. No, everyone speaks, even if it is not accepted from him. He does not remain silent. He speaks the truth and calls to it, even if it is not accepted. And he writes to the responsible people, to the court in his country, to the Commission in his country, to me, for example, because I am responsible for the call, to the Council of Judiciary, the Ministry of Justice, to everyone he thinks has authority: the Minister of Interior, the Deputy Minister of Interior, the ruler of his country. He does the means. He does not be lenient and he does not laugh.
Source الغزو الفكري — islamhouse.com (50:10)

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