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“Indeed, fear of people should not prevent a man from speaking
the truth, if he knows it.”
Then Abu Sa'eed wept and said: "By Allah, we have seen things that made us scared (and we did not speak up)."
Sunan Ibn Majah Book 36, Hadith 82
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“When the Children of Isral became deficient in religious
commitment, a man would see his brother committing sin and would tell
him not to do it, but the next day, what he had seen him do did not
prevent him from eating or drinking with him, or mixing with him. So
Allah made the hearts of those who did not commit sin like the hearts
of those who did, and He revealed Quran concerning them and said:
“Those among the Children of Israel who disbelieved were cursed by
the tongue of David and ‘Eisa, son of Maryam” until he reached:
“And had they believed in Allah, and in the Prophet and in what has
been revealed to him, never would they have taken them (the
disbelievers) as their friends; but many of them are disobedient (to
Allah).”
The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) sat up and said: "No, not until they take the hand of the wrongdoer (i.e. restrain him] and force him to follow the right way."
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“No one of you should belittle himself.” They said: “O
Messenger
of Allah, how could anyone of us belittle himself?” He
said: “If he
sees something concerning which he should speak out
for the sake of
Allah but does not say anything. Allah will say to
him on the Day of
Resurrection: “What prevented you from speaking
concerning such and
such?” He will say: “Fear of the people.”
(Allah) will say: “Rather
you should have feared Me.”