Scholars and legal experts warned from attacking citizens and using violence under the pretext of promoting virtue and preventing vice.

Dr. 'Afāf al-Najār, former Dean of Faculty of Islamic Studies, said, that if these matters were left to the general public then Egypt would soon turn into a jungle [referring to applying hadd on people by normal citizens].

Moreover, Hāmid Abū Tālib, Dean of the Faculty of Sharī'ah, said, that the row around applying hadds in streets is aiming for fitnah.