The security agencies in some Islamic countries prevent scholars from giving lessons in the mosques, so what is obligatory for them to do regarding that?
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The questioner: Our Shaykh, may Allah bless you, in some Islamic countries the security agencies prevent scholars, for example, from speaking or delivering lessons in the mosques and so on. What is the advice you direct to these people, or what is it that they must do? Some of the brothers, for example, challenge and confront them, and they speak, and many things result from that, such as arrests and the like. What is it that the brother must do in such a situation?
The Shaykh: This matter is easy; it goes back to the difference in the strength of faith among the students and the weakness of their faith. The ruling in this is known in his saying (peace be upon him):Sahih Muslim 49a, so thisThe student : one who is prevented from speaking about knowledge, enjoining good, and forbidding evil has a rank among these three ranks. The highest is changing evil by hand, the lowest is changing evil by heart, and between these two is changing evil by tongue. Therefore, Allah (Mighty and Majestic) has made a leeway in the matter. So the matter returns, as I mentioned to you at the beginning of the answer, to the strength of faithThe student : or the weakness of faith. And there is another aspect, which is very important: his faith may be strong, and very strong, but he sees that the temporary interest now requires him to preserve his knowledge and his activity until the day he is able to perform his duty. As our Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) indicated in the well-known hadith in "al-Sahihayn": . So he did that out of fear of fitnah (trial, discord or temptation), not out of weakness in his faith; for he (peace be upon him), as is known with certainty, is the strongest of all people in faith. Rather, he considered a jurisprudential principle in that, which states: "The greater evil is repelled by the lesser evil."
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh : The answer is clear.
The questioner: May Allah reward you with good.
The Shaykh : And beware of that.
The Shaykh: This matter is easy; it goes back to the difference in the strength of faith among the students and the weakness of their faith. The ruling in this is known in his saying (peace be upon him):
He who amongst you sees something abominable should modify it with the help of his hand; and if he has not strength enough to do it, then he should do it with his tongue, and if he has not strength enough to do it, (even) then he should (abhor it) from his heart, and that is the least of faith.
مَن رأى منكم منكرًا فليغيِّرْه بيده ، فإن لم يستطع فبلسانه ، فإن لم يستطع فبقلبه ؛ وذلك أضعف الإيمانO Aisha, if it were not that your people are recent in their association of partners with Allah, I would have demolished the Ka'bah and built it on the foundation of Ibrahim (peace be upon him).
يا عائشة ، لولا أنَّ قومك حديثو عهد بالشرك لَهَدَمْتُ الكعبة ، ولَبَنَيْتُها على أساس إبراهيم - عليه السلام -The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh : The answer is clear.
The questioner: May Allah reward you with good.
The Shaykh : And beware of that.
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