Are there cases where it is preferable to temporarily remain silent regarding the people of innovation?

It is not permissible to declare someone an innovator (mubtadi') unless the conditions are met and impediments are removed. When these conditions are met, a Muslim must advise them and clarify the truth to them. If they persist in their innovation but do not publicize it, they are treated as a disobedient Muslim, without disclosing their matter. However, if they publicize their innovation and call others to it, then it becomes obligatory to condemn it, because refuting innovators is part of enjoining good and forbidding evil, while considering benefits and harms. If the innovator is someone who refutes disbelievers and atheists, the general principle is not to refute them, so as not to assist the disbelievers against them. Ibn Taymiyyah said: "And if it were to be assumed that Muslims are oppressors and transgressors, and manifest various types of innovations that are greater than insulting 'Ali and 'Uthman, the intelligent person would consider the better of two good things and the worse of two bad things. Do you not see that even though the Ahl al-Sunnah say what they say about the Khawarij, the Rawafidh, and other innovators, they do not assist the disbelievers against their religion, nor do they prefer the prevalence of disbelief and its adherents over the prevalence of a lesser innovation?"