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Sh. Falāḥ: "They came to Shaykh ibn ʿUthaymīn whilst he was in his masjid teaching. They overloaded him [by constantly shouting:] "O Shaykh! The evil [in our country]! O Shaykh!…" Then a very zealous/passionate one stood up [shouting], after which the Shaykh closed the book [he was teaching]. Students of knowledge [present] and a book [that was being taught], but the Shaykh closed his book and he let him speak (and get it all off his chest). This was an agitated person [who kept shouting:] "Until when?! How can you be silent?! How can you hide knowledge?! How can you hide it when Allāh has ordered you to command the good and forbid the evil?! The evil has caused uproar! There are Ribā banks, etc!" Many things he said. "Until when will you stay silent?!" Until he finally calmed down. The Shaykh hadn't yet said anything, O brothers. Allāhu akbar. May Allāh have abundant mercy upon him. He let him speak (and get it all of his chest) until he fully drained his battery. When he finished, the Shaykh said: "Are you done?" He said: "Yes. I'm done." The Shaykh said: "Let me ask you a question. How do you know that we did not forbid and condemn [the evil]?" Allāhu akbar! If he (this shouting person) truly had some intellect… "How do you know that we didn't condemn, that we didn't go [to those responsible] or that we didn't say anything? How do you know?" He said: "But, there is evil!!" The Shaykh said: "No, no. Just tell me how do you know? Are you able to say with certainty that I didn't go [to advise and condemn]? How do you know I didn't go? Or that one of my brothers from the scholars didn't go? How can you know?" If he truly had any intellect, he should have slaughtered himself (out of shame). If he had any shame, he would slaughter himself. Truly! How can you accuse all of the scholars? There is nothing easier than accusing, O brothers! How have you accused all of the scholars?! Shaykh ʿAbdul-ʿAzīz [ibn Bāz]… Major scholars! How have you accused all of them that they didn't condemn and forbid [the evil]?! He (the Shaykh) then said: "Anyway, just sit down now. Just sit down. Have you calmed down? You can sit down now." He (the Shaykh) further said: "By Allāh, we went [to advise them]. But after we go to them, we don't return and ascend the pulpit in the masjid saying: "O people! I went to the leader and I condemned this and that upon him!" No, by Allāh. We don't do such things. We keep things secret. We go speak to them (the leaders) in private. If they listen to us, then that is [good], but if they don't listen then we have carried out what's upon us. We don't make these things public." He (the Shaykh) further said: "And I remind you as well that the people came to [the Companion] Usāmah ibn Zayd and overloaded him [by saying to him:] "Have you not seen what ʿUthmān [ibn ʿAffān] has done?!"" They basically wanted someone from the Companions to lead the revolt against ʿUthmān. That's why they approached Usāmah ibn Zayd, they thought they could easily persuade him. However, these are Companions we are talking about here, O brothers! They said to him (Usāmah): "Come and look what ʿUthmān has done! He appointed his relatives! He appointed such-and-such! He did such-and-such! Why don't you condemn him?! Until when?! You don't condemn him?!" He (Usāmah) responded: "What made you know that we don't condemn?" He told them the exact same thing! He reminded him of that. He said: "Each time we enter upon ʿUthmān to advise eachother, we need to come back to you and inform you of that?! Why?" So Usāmah ibn Zayd repelled them [this way]. So basically, O brothers, we are trying to say that this is how the condemning is done. Condemning and forbidding [the evil] has a certain method and way. You don't go condemning by carrying a sword saying: "We condemn." No! If you condemn this way, you will cause more harm and thus you won't have achieved anything. No, this is not appropriate."
