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عن الوليد بن عقبة رضي الله عنه قال قال رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم إن أناسا من أهل الجنة ينطلقون إلى أناس من أهل النار فيقولون بم دخلتم النار فوالله ما دخلنا الجنة إلا بما تعلمنا منكم فيقولون إنا كنا نقول ولا نفعل رواه الطبراني في الكبير )الترغيب والترهيب 1/171(
Hazrat Waleed bin Uqbah (Radhiyallahu Anhu) reports that Rasulullah (Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam) said: “A group of the people of Jannah will go to a group of the people of Jahannum and ask them: ‘What has caused you to enter Jahannum? By the qasm of Allah, we only entered Jannah because of what we learnt from you (i.e. the good we acquired through your preaching to us).’ They would reply saying: ‘Indeed we used to preach and speak about it, however we did not practise upon it (in our lives).’”
so, if you preach something, but you do not act upon it, you are committing a big sin.
This sounds very logical.
Preaching something means you have knowledge about it.
in other words, if you have knowledge about something, and you do not act upon it, you are committing a sin.
counter rule of this:
If you do not have knowledge about something and you do not act upon it, you are not committing a sin...because, how can you commit a sin if you do not know that is prohibited?
So also logical.
if you have knowledge about something, you have several options:
1 preach, act upon it
2 preach, not act upon it
3 not preach, act upon it
4 not preach, not act upon it
option 1 is of course the best option.
The hadeeth is about option 2, but I think this option is still better than option 4.
this, because you earned hasanahs by preaching by helping people gain knowledge. this cannot be wrong, whether you act upon it or not.
option 4, you are committing a sin, but you also didn't earn any hasanahs.
Option 3 is a tricky one. you have the opportunity to teach people something good...but you refuse to do that...people are sinning just because you chose to keep your mouth shut (they are not really sinning because the do not know it is wrong, but you do know that and you are not correcting that).
I do not know if option 3 is OK.