Enjoining the Good and Forbidding Evil: When Is Enjoining Good and Forbidding Evil Obligatory — and Who Is Qualified?
Practical Laws of Islam as per the teachings of Imam Khamenei
Enjoining the Good and Forbidding Evil: When Is Enjoining Good and Forbidding Evil Obligatory — and Who Is Qualified?
English:
Question #1050:
Is it obligatory for someone who wants to enjoin another person to the good or forbid him from evil to have the power to carry it out? When is it obligatory to enjoin someone to the good and forbid him from evil?
Answer #1050:
Whoever enjoins and forbids must know what the good and evil are and knows that the wrongdoer commits them intentionally and without any shar‘ī excuse. It is obligatory to enjoin the good and forbid evil only when it is likely to be effective and one is secure from harm in doing it, considering the extent of the expected harm and the importance of the good or evil in question. Otherwise, it is not obligatory for him.