"Whoever sees an evil deed being performed
should change it with his hand. If he is not able to change it with his
hand, then (he should change it) with his tongue. And if he is not able
to change it with his tongue, then (he should change it) with his heart,
and that is the weakest form of Eeman."
- Prophet Muhammad صلى الله عليه و سلم
"The best way to protect ourselves from wrong
is to keep away from anything that could lead to it. One of the
favorite tricks of the Shaytân, which deceives everyone except those
who are clever enough to see it, is to show a person some goodness in a
wrong thing, and call him to go towards it; when the person gets close
to it, he falls into the trap."
- Ibn al Qayyim
"A man only commits haram actions because of the weakness of his
faith and love; if he does makruh actions it is because he does not
have enough hatred towards it, or because of the strength of the love
for it that overwhelmed his heart. No person does any haram action,
such as immoral conduct both obvious and hidden, or sin and
transgression, or associates things with Allah for which He has sent
down no authority, or speaks about Allah without knowledge, except
because of weakness of faith, because of lack of knowledge and belief,
or because of the weakness of love and hate. But if his faith is
basically sound, which means that he believes in all that Allah sent,
then when the believer does these actions, he feels hatred and
resentment towards them, and if he does them then it is because his
whims and desires overwhelmed him, so when doing them he inevitably
hates them and fears Allah’s punishment for them, and he has the hope
that he will rid himself of the consequences, either by repenting or by
doing good deeds or by being forgiven, and so on. But if he does not
hate them and does not fear Allah with regard to them and does not hope
for His mercy, then this is not a believer under any circumstances;
rather he is a kafir or a hypocrite."
- Ibn Taymiyyah
