Enjoining the Good and Forbidding Evil: Are Higher Levels of Enjoining Good Reserved for the Islamic Government?
Practical Laws of Islam as per the teachings of Imam Khamenei
Enjoining the Good and Forbidding Evil: Are Higher Levels of Enjoining Good Reserved for the Islamic Government?
English:
Question #1047:
Is it a governmental ordinance or a fatwā that under the Islamic state the people’s duty with respect to enjoining the good and forbidding evil is limited to oral enjoining and forbidding and the other grades are the responsibility of the authorities?
Answer #1047:
It is a jurisprudential fatwā.