Changing evil

Arabic

مَنْ رَأَى مِنْكُمْ مُنْكَرًا فَلْيُغَيِّرْهُ بِيَدِهِ، فَإِنْ لَمْ يَسْتَطِعْ فَبِلِسَانِهِ، فَإِنْ لَمْ يَسْتَطِعْ فَبِقَلْبِهِ، وَذَلِكَ أَضْعَفُ الْإِيمَانِ.

Translation

Whoever among you sees evil, let him change it with his hand. If he cannot, then with his tongue. If he cannot, then with his heart — and that is the weakest of faith.

Narrator

Abū Saʿīd al-Khudrī

Source

Muslim 49

Commentary

The three tiers of responsibility scale with capability: authority, speech, inner rejection. 'Weakest' doesn't mean 'optional' — it means even the one with no power must not normalise what Allah has forbidden.