The Importance of the Rite of Enjoining Good and Forbidding Evil
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Question:
The questioner says: We ask you, Honorable Shaykh, for a guiding word on the importance of the rite of enjoining good and forbidding evil?
Answer:
The rite of enjoining good and forbidding evil is a great rite; indeed, some scholars have counted it among the pillars of Islam. It is great, and it is necessary to carry out enjoining good and forbidding evil. As long as there are people in the Muslim community who enjoin good and forbid evil, the community will be safe, by the permission of Allah, and saved from punishment. But if enjoining good and forbidding evil is absent from society, destruction becomes a right upon it.[Hud 11:117] If there are reformers in it, Allah averts the calamity through them. But if there are no reformers in it, punishment becomes a right upon it. There is no power and no strength except with Allah. Yes.
The questioner says: We ask you, Honorable Shaykh, for a guiding word on the importance of the rite of enjoining good and forbidding evil?
Answer:
The rite of enjoining good and forbidding evil is a great rite; indeed, some scholars have counted it among the pillars of Islam. It is great, and it is necessary to carry out enjoining good and forbidding evil. As long as there are people in the Muslim community who enjoin good and forbid evil, the community will be safe, by the permission of Allah, and saved from punishment. But if enjoining good and forbidding evil is absent from society, destruction becomes a right upon it.
And your Lord would not have destroyed the cities unjustly while their people were reformers.
وَمَا كَانَ رَبُّكَ لِيُهْلِكَ الْقُرَىٰ بِظُلْمٍ وَأَهْلُهَا مُصْلِحُونَ
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تفسير الشيخ محمد بن عبدالوهاب، تفسير الإمام محمد بن عبدالوهاب 20-07-1433هـ — alfawzan.live (57:35)
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