By what means is the Muslim's obligation discharged in this age if he is unable to change evil, for example?

The questioner : May Allah reward you. You asked by what means the Muslim's obligation is discharged in this age if he is unable, for example, to change a great evil that he detests and hates, or to change the reality, as you mentioned a moment ago?

The Shaykh : Each Muslim is according to his capacity. The scholar has an obligation that is not obligatory for the non-scholar. As I say on such an occasion, Allah the Mighty and Majestic has perfected the blessing with His Book and made it a constitution for the Muslims and those who believe in it. Among the things of this is that Allah the Mighty and Majestic, when He said: , He Blessed and Exalted is He, in this verse, divided the Muslim community into two groups: the scholar and the non-scholar. He made obligatory for each of them what He did not make obligatory for the other. He made it obligatory for the other group, those who are not scholars, to ask the people of knowledge, and He made it obligatory for them to answer them regarding what they asked them about. So, there is a scholar whose obligation is to
The Shaykh : know, and a non-scholar whose obligation is to learn. So, obligations differ according to the persons. The scholar today has the obligation to call to the truth within the limits of his ability, and the non-scholar has the obligation to ask about what concerns him regarding himself and those for whom he is a guardian, such as a wife or a child or the like. If every Muslim from both groups, the scholar and the non-scholar, does what he is able to do, then Allah the Mighty and Majestic says: . Unfortunately, we are living in a tragedy that has befallen the Muslims, for which Islamic history has no parallel, and that is that the disbelievers have conspired to fight the Muslims, as the noble Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) informed us in his well-known and authentic saying, and praise be to Allah: . So, the obligation of the scholars is to strive among the Muslims by teaching them. As for striving against these disbelievers who have conspired from every side to fight the Muslims, as long as they do not have a leadership and do not have an imam who leads them and directs them, they are not able to do such jihad now. But they must adopt every means by which they can adopt. We now, as individuals, cannot arm ourselves with material weapons, and even if we could, we cannot actually move, because there are leaders and rulers who adopt a policy that does not agree with the Shari'ah policy, unfortunately. But we can achieve the two great things that I mentioned earlier, which are purification and education. When the Muslims or the Muslim callers perform such an obligation in a country and unite on this basis, I believe that at that time the saying of He Blessed and Exalted is He becomes true for them: . Blessed and Exalted is He. So, the obligation of every Muslim is to do his best, and Allah does not burden a soul except with what it can bear.