Our approach for Dawah

Question: What should be our way of enjoining the good and forbidding the evil?

Reply by Shaikh Salih al-Fawzan,

"If enjoining the good and forbidding the evil is done in a Muslim land, then the issue is precisely known - Al-Hamdulillah - that the person advices, gives reminders and presents arguments in a good way and if the matter needs informing the authority, then he does so.

If authority is not required to be informed about the issue, then it is required to cover up. If a positive response towards accepting the Dawah and abandoning the wrong is noted from a disobedient, then such people are to be covered up for, and it is enough that they improve themselves and move away from corruption towards rectification.

If it is found that the disobedient does not respond and does not accept the advice, then the issue has to be raised up to the authority. If the issue is raised up to the authority of the Muslims, then the duty of the advisor is fulfilled, because he has reached the issue to its end.

In the case, when it is not a Muslim society, then it is required that the Dawah be carried out with wisdom and argumentation in a good way while avoiding the greater Fitna (tribulation) that may return to the Muslims as a harm.

There should be no violence and no confrontation which could aggravate, because it is propagation of Islam with wisdom and argumentation in a good way and advice for whosoever accepts it, and he, who does not accept it, then his case rests with Allah."

[Al-Muntaqa (1/196)]