What is your advice to the caller who says, “If you see a woman displaying her adornment, spit in her face and say to her, ‘O enemy of Allah’”?

Question:
Honorable Shaykh, I listened to one of the callers who said in one of his lectures, “If you see a woman displaying her adornment, spit in her face and say to her, ‘O enemy of Allah.’” What is your opinion of this statement? Especially since it is recorded and is being circulated among many people.

Answer:
This is not part of calling to Allah the Exalted; this is violence, which is not permissible. If you see a woman uncovering her head, say, “May Allah guide you” or “May Allah forgive you.” This is not permissible. Speak to her with kind words and words that enter her heart. As for meeting her with violence and harshness, Allah the Exalted says: Therefore, violence is not permissible in calling to Allah or in enjoining good and forbidding evil, because this generates evil and causes the woman or others to resist or retaliate with something worse. So it is required of this speaker that he correct his words and that he not say such things. This is not among the methodologies of da'wah.
Allah the Exalted said to His Prophet: This is in the category of reconciliation and bringing hearts to good, and not driving them away. When Allah sent Musa and Harun (peace be upon them) to the most powerful person on earth, Pharaoh, who claimed lordship, He said: If this is the case with Pharaoh, how much more so with the other sinners among the Muslims? Such things are not permissible. Yes.