How to reconcile patience in the face of trials with the obligation to forbid evil and clarify error?
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The questioner : May Allah protect you. How to reconcile patience in the face of trials with the obligation to forbid evil, warn people against danger, and clarify the danger to people, because a person ... will ... to the causes of those trials and the causes of this ...?
The Shaykh : The intended meaning is patience with rulers regarding what is disliked from them. As for patience with sins such that a person approves of the sin, that is not permissible. This sin must be forbidden.
The questioner : A person will warn ... .
The Shaykh : No, no. The Messenger did not intend patience with evil; he intended patience with rulers and governors. Because the hadith of Anas is about complaining about the governor, who was the authority and ruler over Iraq.
The questioner : This does not prevent warning people ... saying that this government placed him.
The Shaykh : This must be clarified in terms of the truth. But if the governor oppresses people or commits evils that he himself forbids, then we are patient and advise him in the best manner.
The questioner : But a person cannot do what he is able to do to contact the ruler.
The Shaykh : If he is not able, he is patient. The one who is not able: Fear Allah as much as you are able.
The Shaykh : The intended meaning is patience with rulers regarding what is disliked from them. As for patience with sins such that a person approves of the sin, that is not permissible. This sin must be forbidden.
The questioner : A person will warn ... .
The Shaykh : No, no. The Messenger did not intend patience with evil; he intended patience with rulers and governors. Because the hadith of Anas is about complaining about the governor, who was the authority and ruler over Iraq.
The questioner : This does not prevent warning people ... saying that this government placed him.
The Shaykh : This must be clarified in terms of the truth. But if the governor oppresses people or commits evils that he himself forbids, then we are patient and advise him in the best manner.
The questioner : But a person cannot do what he is able to do to contact the ruler.
The Shaykh : If he is not able, he is patient. The one who is not able: Fear Allah as much as you are able.