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﴿ فَاسْأَلُوا أَهْلَ الذِّكْرِ إِن كُنتُمْ لَا تَعْلَمُونَ ﴾

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What is your advice for the committed youth regarding the issue of enjoining good and forbidding evil?

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The questioner : We praise Allah (Mighty and Majestic) for the blessings He has bestowed upon us, guiding us to this methodology. We would not have been guided had Allah not guided us. As we have learned, it is built upon purification and education. Among the blessings Allah (Mighty and Majestic) has bestowed upon Jordan is that it has distinguished itself by the methodology of purification, emerging and surpassing others; it may have taken the lead today in all countries, and this is from the favor of Allah upon it. I cannot judge in two or three nights. I notice, O Shaykh, weakness in the issue of da'wah, and this is what I see from the abundance of evil in the streets. So I do not know, O Shaykh, what is obligatory for our brothers, knowing that we believe the situation does not allow for forbidding evil, and that we are more like the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) in Makkah. As you said to the Algerian: "If you are not like the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), then be like Abu Bakr in Makkah."
So I say, O Shaykh: What is your advice for the brothers here? Because they are not far from the oppressors.

The Shaykh : By Allah, I believe that what you point to regarding the difference between this country and the countries where you are still governed by a great deal of Islamic rulings is sufficient. I hope to Allah (Mighty and Majestic) that this great deal will become greater with the days and not decrease.
The situation here is completely different from your country. Your country inherited the religion and enjoining good and forbidding evil as an inheritance from the time of Muhammad ibn 'Abd al-Wahhab (may Allah have mercy on him). But here, the matter is completely different. Here, the starting point for calling to the Book and the Sunnah, and for practically realizing this call, is from what we have been taught through education with purification.
Therefore, this is a divergence from the situation you have.
A second, third, and fourth thing, and many, many things: Here there are many schools of thought, some of which are Islamic schools, and some are completely far from Islam, whereas in your country there is nothing of these contradictions. What can be established in your country of enjoining good and forbidding evil and realizing purification and education cannot be realized now unless our country returns to be like your country. At that time, it will be easy to realize something of what we desire from the call of purification and education.
Perhaps you know that here there are destructive, non-Islamic schools of thought. We have many, many Sufi path leaders. And we have Islamists who contradict the call of the Book and the Sunnah in a clear and radical way, even those who call for establishing the Muslim state. They do not see or support the call of the Book and the Sunnah because they claim that this call divides the ummah. Therefore, despite our smallness, or rather our weakness and poverty, we cannot face all these different forms and types of hostility. In my view, it is self-evident that in a place where you feel what you felt, but if you know these facts, then at that time you will agree with us that our failure to achieve anything that pleases every Muslim is something for which we may be excused, as we hope from Allah (Blessed and Exalted is He).
In short: Those who responded to the call of truth are few, and those who turned away from it are very, very many, of different types and forms.
Therefore, as it was said: "Things are distinguished by their opposites." If you compare the general society in your country with the general society in our country, you must see these divergences. May Allah have mercy on you.
Perhaps Professor Abu Malik will also support us with his support in this matter.
Source www.al-albany.com

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