Shaykh Ibn Baz’s Advice to the Committee for the Promotion of Virtue: Uphold Gentleness and Wisdom in Enjoining Good
- Muiz As-Siddeeqi
- May 27
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Shaykh Ibn Baz’s Advice to the Committee for the Promotion of Virtue: Uphold Gentleness and Wisdom in Enjoining Good
From: ʿAbdulʿAzīz ibn ʿAbdullāh ibn Bāz
To: The Honourable Respected Brother, His Excellency the General President of the Committees for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice – may Allah grant him success.
Peace, mercy and blessings of Allah be upon you. To proceed:
I am enclosing with this letter a message sent to me by the individual called ‘A. ‘A. I., an Egyptian national. It contains a report regarding what happened to his wife of mistreatment by some members of the Committee in Jeddah.
After reviewing it, I kindly advise the Committee in Jeddah and elsewhere to adopt gentleness and good conduct when forbidding evil, especially in the issue of women uncovering their faces.
Indeed, Allah—Glorified and Exalted is He—grants with gentleness what He does not grant with harshness.
It is well known that the issue of face covering is a matter of scholarly disagreement and a point of contention, so it is obligatory to be gentle in forbidding it and to call toward ḥijāb in a kind manner—without needing to demand a residence permit or immigration documents, or forcing the woman into a car to take her to the office.
This is particularly true for foreign women, as they are more deserving of gentleness due to the prevalence of ignorance among them and their habitual uncovering in their countries—except those whom Allah has shown mercy.
I ask Allah—Exalted is He—to grant you success in all that pleases Him and to assist you in every good. He is All-Hearing, Ever Near.
And peace, mercy and blessings of Allah be upon you.
Majmūʿ Fatāwā wa-Maqālāt Shaykh Ibn Bāz (7/322)
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