Combining the verse: (Take care of your own selves; no harm will come to you from those who go astray) and the hadith: (Whoever among you sees an evil)

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Combining the verse: (Take care of your own selves; no harm will come to you from those who go astray) and the hadith: (Whoever among you sees an evil)

How do we combine the saying of Allah, Mighty and Majestic:

O you who have believed, upon you is [responsibility for] yourselves. Those who have gone astray will not harm you when you have been guided. To Allah is you return all together; then He will inform you of what you used to do.

يَا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا عَلَيْكُمْ أَنْفُسَكُمْ لا يَضُرُّكُمْ مَنْ ضَلَّ إِذَا اهْتَدَيْتُمْ إِلَى اللَّهِ مَرْجِعُكُمْ جَمِيعاً فَيُنَبِّئُكُمْ بِمَا كُنْتُمْ تَعْمَلُونَ

[Surat al-Ma'idah: 105] ,and the saying of the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him): (Whoever among you sees an evil, let him change it with his hand, and if he cannot, then with his tongue,) to the end of the hadith?
There is no contradiction between the verse and the hadith,And there is no contradiction between the verse and His saying, the Exalted:

And let there be [arising] from you a nation inviting to [all that is] good, enjoining what is right and forbidding what is wrong

وَلْتَكُنْ مِنْكُمْ أُمَّةٌ يَدْعُونَ إِلَى الْخَيْرِ وَيَأْمُرُونَ بِالْمَعْرُوفِ وَيَنْهَوْنَ عَنِ الْمُنْكَر

[Surat Al-Imran: 104] contradiction;Because the verse that mentioned His saying:

Those who have gone astray will not harm you when you have been guided

لا يَضُرُّكُمْ مَنْ ضَلَّ إِذَا اهْتَدَيْتُمْ

[Surat al-Ma'idah: 105] is qualified by His saying: "if you are guided," and part of our guidance is that we enjoin what is right and forbid what is wrong. But if enjoining what is right and forbidding what is wrong yields no benefit, then the person should concern himself with his own self. For this reason, it is narrated from the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) that he said: (Enjoin what is right and forbid what is wrong, until you see greed being obeyed, desires being followed, worldly life being preferred, and every person with an opinion being pleased with his own opinion; then concern yourself with your own self and leave the affairs of the common people.) .

So the verse of al-Ma'idah:

O you who have believed, upon you is [responsibility for] yourselves

يَا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا عَلَيْكُمْ أَنْفُسَكُمْ

[Surat al-Ma'idah: 105] applies when a person is unable to enjoin what is right or forbid what is wrong, or when his enjoining and forbidding yields no benefit. For this reason, Abu Bakr recited this verse,And he said: (O people! You are reciting the saying of Allah the Exalted:

O you who have believed, upon you is [responsibility for] yourselves. Those who have gone astray will not harm you when you have been guided

يَا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا عَلَيْكُمْ أَنْفُسَكُمْ لا يَضُرُّكُمْ مَنْ ضَلَّ إِذَا اهْتَدَيْتُمْ

[Surat al-Ma'idah: 105] And I heard the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) say: If people see an evil and do not change it, Allah will soon encompass them with His punishment.) .

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