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In the name of Allah ,Most Gracious, Most Merciful
Ordering Right and Prohibiting Wrong
Part 1
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Nyki k Kam......
The Tablighi Jamaat Movement
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DEEN KA KAM.....Da` wah - An Invitation Towards Islam(UPDATED EDITION)
KNOW that ordering all that is right and prohibiting all that is wrong is the
greatest single element of this deen and it is the task with which Allah sent
all of his messengers, peace be upon them all. If it were to be abandoned, all
religion would cease, corruption would appear everywhere and the lands would be
destroyed. In Sura Aal 'Imraan, Allah commands us to "hold fast to the rope of
Allah altogether and do not divide yourselves". We are commanded to hold fast
to the body of the Muslims and strive to promote unity and avoid division. This
does NOT include, however, being complacent or cowardly with disobedience to
Allah in our midst. Allah said in the very next verse:
{Let there be among you a group who call to all that is good, order all that is
right and prohibit all that is wrong and these are the successful ones. (104)
And do not be as those who separated and differed after all clarifications had
come to them. For these is a horrendous punishment. (105)
Note that in this verse, what Allah is commanding is fardh kifaya (that which a
sufficient number must stand forth to fulfill and once they have, there is no
sin on the rest of the Muslims) because Allah said "let there be among you a
group" and he did not say "let each of you do this". But Allah Most High
attributed success (
al-falaah) specifically to those who engage in this most important obligation.
There are many other verses in the Qur'an which deal with this obligation of
ordering and prohibiting.
So, there is a general obligation upon the Muslims to ensure that all
wrongdoing is prohibited and striven against and that all obligations are
commanded and maintained in society and individuals. This, as we have said is
fardh kifaya. There are situations, however, where ordering an prohibiting
becomes fardh 'ain or an individual obligation. This is clearly stated in the
following hadith:
Whoever among you sees wrongdoing, let him rectify it with his hand. If he is
unable, then with his tongue. And if he is incapable of that then with his
heart and that is the weakest level of faith."
If ordering right and prohibiting wrong is negelected on both the individual
and the collective level, all will suffer its harm. In the famous hadith about
the ship, the Prophet
(sallallahu 'alaihi wa sallam) said:
The analogy of the one who stands firm at Allah's boundaries, the one who
transgresses them and the one who compromises regarding them is like a group of
people who boarded a ship. Some of them ended up in the lower and more
dangerous sections of the ship while others were above that. Every time those
in the lower parts of the ship needed water, they passed by those in the upper
parts and inconvenienced them. Then some of them said, "We could make a hole in
our portion of the ship and we would be able to get water to drink without
bothering those above us." If they were to leave them with this business of
theirs, all of them would perish but if they seize their hands, all of them
would be saved."
In our time, many Muslims have misunderstood Allah's statement:
{There is no compulsion in the religion. Guidance has been made clear from
falsehood. So, whoever rejects all false objects of worship and believes in
Allah has held fast to the most trusted hand-hold which can never break and
Allah is the Hearing the Knowing.}
You hear them all the time quoting this hadith as "proof" against acts of
ordering the right and forbidding the wrong. For example, if Muslims in an area
order the closing of businesses during prayer and order Muslims on the streets
to proceed to the masajid, some of them condemn this loudly and say "there is
no compulsion in religion". This is the height of ignorance and lack of
understanding of the teachings of Islam. The meaning of the above verse is that
there is no compulsion INTO the religion,
i.e., no one can be forced to convert to Islam. That is both fact and law. It
is fact because anyone who said the shahadah under duress would not have become
Muslim anyway. It is law because it if forbidden for any Muslim to attempt to
force anyone to become Muslim.
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