Continuation of the explanation of the hadith of Mu'adh and his saying: "And if you do a bad deed, do a good deed next to it; the secret with the secret and the public with the public," and how to handle a mistake when it occurs

The Shaykh : This hadith is also an explanation of another hadith of Mu'adh, in which the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) said: This details that following up, saying: If you make a mistake, if you disobey your Lord publicly, you must follow that up with repentance and a good deed publicly. As for if you are afflicted with doing something in secret, do not expose yourself and do not announce your sin; rather, repent to Allah (Mighty and Majestic), which is undoubtedly a good deed, and also do good deeds in secret. That is further from you having committed showing off in performing this deed. As for if you did a bad deed publicly, here the publicizing of the repentance from it involves humbling oneself and subduing it. And so you find many people when they ... publicly, a person comes and advises them that they made a mistake and that they should announce their mistake to the people. Few do that. And from this we know that enjoining good and forbidding evil does not have a specific, defined system as it appears to some people who are dominated by politics in their calling, in their opinion. They think that, for example, if a preacher makes a mistake on the pulpit and recites a fabricated hadith with no basis, one stands up. And unfortunately, this does not exist in this country, whereas in Egypt it happens a lot. The reason is that the Egyptian country has, meaning, a more scholarly spirit than this country. We know of many incidents where some of the attendees rebuke the preacher for a hadith or an opinion in which he erred. The preachers here remain between sincere people and insincere people, and so on. The point is that if a mistake occurs publicly, it must be rebuked publicly, and if it occurs in secret, it must be rebuked in secret, because in the first case, as it pleases some people, as we mentioned earlier, this preacher is taken aside after his sermon and after his prayer, and it is said to him in a gentle language: "May Allah bless you, what a sweet and beneficial sermon," and so on, a new lecture so that the Muslim can offer a brief advice to his Muslim brother. But in your sermon, there was such-and-such a hadith, and this is a fabricated hadith. This is what some propose. This ... this approach may be beneficial in terms of preserving the heart of the one being advised, because unfortunately, the souls of most Muslims have become Pharaonic and arrogant, not accepting advice except from whom Allah wills. This approach could have been adopted under two conditions, one of which is absolutely impossible to achieve and the other may be possible. The first is to gather all the people he made a mistake to in his sermon, in a second sermon or a second gathering, and say: "I mentioned to you in the previous sermon such-and-such a hadith, and it has been shown that this is a fabricated hadith." It is not possible to gather all these people if there are, for example, a thousand people in the mosque, or fewer or more. In the second sermon, meaning the second Friday, it is not reasonable that all of them ... by name. Some may not attend and others may attend, and so on. This is not ... So if this person is told in secret and it is announced, and this is very rare, this announcement will miss those who did not attend the second sermon.
Therefore, a mistake must be rebuked according to its reality: if it is public, it is rebuked publicly, and if it is secret, it is rebuked in secret, because there is no benefit here in announcing it except to expose the one who erred. Here, the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) advises each of us that if he makes a mistake in front of people, he should announce this mistake in front of people, saying: "I made a mistake." This is sufficient, and praise be to Allah, Lord of the worlds.
Al-'Aid 'Abassi: There are some previous questions, including the following question. The questioner asks.