(Question posed to Shaykh Ahmad Bazmool in Makkah the 9th night of Jumaad ath-Thaani 1433H corresponding to the 30th of April 2012.)
First Question:
If a person forbids someone from an evil, the one who is being forbidden from doing this evil says, “You do not know what is in my heart,” or they say “Who are you that you judge me?” So what do you say in regards to this?
In the name of
Allaah, all praises are for Allaah, and may peace and salutations be
upon the one [Muhammad] sent as a mercy to all of mankind and upon his
family and all of his companions.
As to proceed: So before
answering this question I would like to mention one thing related to
your previous statement when you said: “The noble Shaykh Ahmad ibn ‘Umar
Baazmool.” I am – may Allaah reward you – a student of knowledge, and I
am not amongst the ranks of the major scholars. However this is from
your good thoughts (concerning me), and related to what was said, I
would like our brothers to learn in Makkah, America and
everywhere else that they learn the affair of putting people in
their proper places, as they should not treat the students of knowledge
as if they were on the level of the scholars. So I am a student
of knowledge, and I ask Allaah – the Mighty and Majestic – to aid me in
answering that which you are asking. So I say – may Allaah bless you –
this person who says this type of thing, we say to him that you are upon
error, because the Prophet – salla Allaahu alayhi wa sallam – said:
“Whoever from amongst you sees an evil then let him change it with his hands, if he is unable then with his tongue and if he is unable then with his heart, and that is the lowest of faith.” [Muslim]
The point we are referring to in this hadeeth is the statement of the Prophet – salla Allaahu alayhi wa sallam:
“Whoever sees.”So the
evil which is seen with the eyes has to be stopped with the hand, and
this is if a person has an authority and he has the ability to do so. If
he is not able to stop it with his hand, he does it with his tongue. So
he should say to the person, “this is an error,” “this is haraam,” “this is in opposition to the truth,” etc. This is the first thing.
The second thing is that the statement of this person “You don’t know what’s it my heart,” we say just as Hasan al Basree – rahimahullaah – said:
“Eemaan (faith) is not outer
decoration, nor mere hope. Rather it is what settles in the heart and
what is affirmed by actions. Whoever spoke good and did righteous
actions, it will be accepted from him. But whoever spoke good but did
wicked actions, it will not be accepted from him.”
So if you have within you something which is good, but your action is erroneous, it is a must that this error be spoken against.
Then, thirdly, we say to these
individuals: we were not commanded to look into what is in the hearts of
the people. We were not commanded to ask the people, is this or that in
your heart? However the actual error that was done is rejected and
clarified.
The final matter is that we remind you of the hadeeth of the Prophet – salla Allaahu alayhi wa sallam – in which he said:
“Verily the most detested speech to Allaah, the Mighty and Majestic, is that a man says to another man ‘fear Allaah,’ so the (other) man says: ‘Leave me alone!’”
[In another narration, he says: “Worry about your own self.” Al-Albaanee authenticated it in Silsilatul-Ahaadeethis-Saheehah (2598).]
That which is meant by this statement is
that he is asking the person not to disapprove of what he does. So I
fear that this statement (mentioned in the question) falls under this
hadeeth, thus it will be trying to reject those who command the good and
forbid the evil. And it is upon the Muslim who fears Allaah, if
an evil that he committed is refuted, that he remembers and takes
admonition, and that he leaves this evil, and completely stop.
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