Thread by @TahirNasser

Islam does *not* teach Muslims to "cover up" injustices, but to present them to the authorities.

Once those injustices are presented to the authorities, then it is the duty of Muslims to abide by their decision.

What is forbidden is what you are doing...🧵

https://twitter.com/shezanmango/status/1582182764732121089

The Quran tells us that Allah does not like unseemly speech, except on the part of one who is being wronged. This means that except for the purpose of drawing the attention of authorities to an injustice, one's speech should be clean of accusations against others.

Once the matter is put to the relevant authorities, it becomes their duty to address the wrong. You may simply say you are "raising awareness" of injustice to prevent people from it. However, the Quran is against this:

The Quran explicitly tells Muslims not to defame their OWN (ie: Believers) people. In that vein, calling people by evil names is similarly forbidden. Why? Because it has no benefit...

It does not reform the society – that is achieved through those in authority bringing the attention of society to an issue. All it does is normalise that sin and evil within society through creating the impression that it is widespread when it is not...

Human nature is such that when a person believes a particular vice is widespread, they themselves begin to think little of it, and engage in it themselves, justifying to themselves that "everyone" is doing it...

On a side note, this is precisely how modern day society became hyper-sexualised. Pseudo academics like Kinsey promoted the idea that affairs and illicit relations were more widespread in society through publishing surveys with false and misleading data in them.

This, along with similar other methods, made people feel they had a license for fulfilling their base desires, and abandoning the social etiquettes of society wrt to sexual relations, eg: the necessity of marriage etc...

Public, widespread defamation of believers therefore, claiming that an issue is "widespread" when you have ZERO evidence to backup that claim except your own "feelings" is irresponsible, to put it mildly.

And don't tell us "Huzur has highlighted that men should be kind to the women in their life too". Yes, he has. Huzur is our shepherd. But you are not. Huzur knows best the time, place and choice of words with which to admonish the believers. You do not.

Some further quotes of the Prophet Muhammad (sa):

“One who exposes an indecency is like the one who has committed it and one who curses and criticises a believer for a bad deed will himself fall into the same sin before he leaves this world." al-Kafi Vol. 2 page 356.

"...Do not criticise the Muslims and do not search for their faults, because Allah will search for the faults of those who search for defects in the believers. And whoever’s faults He searches, will be degraded by Him..."

al-Kafi Vol. 2 page 356.

“One who moves out to expose the defects of his brother has taken the first step towards Hell. And Allah will expose his hidden defects on the day of Qiyama."

Wasa’il ul-Shi’a Vol. 7. page 602.

There is enough here to admonish you if you hold fast to the Quran and the Hadith, let alone the fact that I have not even started on the words of the Promised Messiah (as) and Khulafa on this point.