ENJOINING GOOD AND FORBIDDING EVIL! Enjoining the good and forbidding the evil is a great aspect of importance within this pure religion, such that Allah stated in the Quran, “كُنتُمْ خَيْرَ أُمَّةٍ أُخْرِجَتْ لِلنَّاسِ تَأْمُرُونَ بِالْمَعْرُوفِ وَتَنْهَوْنَ عَنِ الْمُنكَرِ وَتُؤْمِنُونَ بِاللَّـهِ.” “You [true believers in Islamic Monotheism, and real followers of Prophet Muhammad (صلى اللهُ عليه وآله وسَلَّم) and his Sunnah (legal ways, etc.)] are the best of peoples ever raised up for mankind; you enjoin Al-Ma’ruf (i.e. Islamic Monotheism and all that Islam has ordained) and forbid Al-Munkar (polytheism, disbelief and all that Islam has forbidden), and you believe in Allah” [Ale Imran:110]. Shaikh al-Fawzan stated regarding the ayat: “This is from the characteristics of this umma [of Islam] which is the best of the peoples raised up for mankind, [they] command with every obedience and goodness, and [they] forbid from every sin and evil, and [they] believe in Allah, hence enjoining the good and forbidding the evil is from the charecteristics of eemaan”…”so they rectify the ‘aqeedah of the people and their actions and dealings and manners, they cause them to be upright upon the religion of Allah….”[دروس من القران الكريم ص195]
Posted on: Tue, 03 Sep 2013 05:22:47 +0000