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It is a jurisprudential fatwā that the people’s duty with respect to enjoining the good and forbidding evil is limited to oral enjoining and forbidding and the other grades are the responsibility of the authorities.
Question: Is it a governmental ordinance or a fatwā that under the Islamic state the people’s duty with respect to
enjoining the good and forbidding evil is limited to oral enjoining and forbidding and the other grades are the
responsibility of the authorities?
Answer: It is a jurisprudential fatwā.
1. Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei, Practical Laws of Islam, Q1047.