Is it permissible to delay forbidding evil to a person who has fallen into shirk (associating partners with Allah) or kufr (disbelief) or into a sin for the sake of maslahah (public benefit)?
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The questioner : May Allah reward you, O honorable Shaykh. Is it permissible to delay forbidding evil to a person who has fallen, for example, into shirk (associating partners with Allah) or kufr (disbelief)?
The Shaykh : What?
The questioner : Is it permissible to delay forbidding evil to a person who has fallen, for example, into shirk (associating partners with Allah) or kufr (disbelief), and likewise to a person who has fallen into something forbidden, for the sake of maslahah (public benefit) or because a greater fitnah (trial, discord or temptation) would result if he were forbidden?
The Shaykh : Allah the Exalted said:[An-Nahl 16:125] So what wisdom requires is what a person must follow.
So if he sees that he should not confront his companion with immediate forbidding, and he sees that he should wait a little and then employ forbidding with him, that is good.
And I suggest that the brothers who are among our students delay their questions until the guests finish, because the brothers, praise be to Allah, are with us and we are with them, but the guests are leaving.
Peace and the mercy of Allah.
The questioner : May Allah reward you with good.
The Shaykh : Yes, these devices, yes.
The Shaykh : What?
The questioner : Is it permissible to delay forbidding evil to a person who has fallen, for example, into shirk (associating partners with Allah) or kufr (disbelief), and likewise to a person who has fallen into something forbidden, for the sake of maslahah (public benefit) or because a greater fitnah (trial, discord or temptation) would result if he were forbidden?
The Shaykh : Allah the Exalted said:
Invite to the way of your Lord with wisdom
ادْعُ إِلَى سَبِيلِ رَبِّكَ بِالْحِكْمَةِSo if he sees that he should not confront his companion with immediate forbidding, and he sees that he should wait a little and then employ forbidding with him, that is good.
And I suggest that the brothers who are among our students delay their questions until the guests finish, because the brothers, praise be to Allah, are with us and we are with them, but the guests are leaving.
Peace and the mercy of Allah.
The questioner : May Allah reward you with good.
The Shaykh : Yes, these devices, yes.