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Enjoining good and forbidding evil

✦⋆· Prophet Muhammad (saw) said, "Whoever enjoins good and prohibits wrong is the deputy of Allah and the deputy of His Prophet on the earth."

● "Indeed, fear of people must not prevent any of you from speaking the truth when he sees it fit to remind others of the grandeur of Allah, for neither will it [i.e. speaking the truth] hasten your destined end, nor will it ward off your decreed sustenance."

● "Verily Allah, Mighty and Exalted, despises the weak believer who has no religion [i.e. has no devotion to his religion]." When asked who a believer with no religion is, he replied, "He who does not prohibit wrong."

● "You must enjoin good indeed and you shall prohibit wrong otherwise the chastisement of Allah will surely overtake you."

● The Prophet (saw) was once told, "We only enjoin that which we ourselves practice absolutely and we only prohibit that which we refrain from absolutely", to which he replied, "No, rather enjoin good even if you yourself do not practice it absolutely and prohibit wrong even if you yourself do not refrain from it absolutely."

✦⋆· Imam Ali (as) said, "The basis of Islamic law is the enjoinment of good and the prohibition of wrong."

● "He who abandons the prohibition of wrong with his heart, his hand and his tongue, is a dead man walking amongst the living."

● "All acts of righteousness and striving in the way of Allah are as mere spittle in the deep sea compared to enjoining good and prohibiting wrong."

● "Enjoinment of good is the best of all acts performed by creation."

● "Know that enjoinment of good and prohibition of wrong never reach an end, and never cut off sustenance."

● Imam Ali (as) said in his last moments to Imam Hassan Mujtaba & Imam Hussain (as) after he had been struck by Ibn Muljim, "Never abandon the enjoinment of good and the prohibition of wrong lest the evil ones amongst you gain mastery over you whereafter you will supplicate [Allah] but you will not be answered."

● "Allah curses those who enjoin good but abandon its practice, and those who prohibit wrong but commit it themselves."

● "The Prophet (saw) commanded us to meet the sinners with stern faces."

● "The best way to punish an evildoer is to reward a good person for his good deeds."

✦⋆· Imam Hussain (as) said, "It is not permissible for a believing eye to watch Allah being disobeyed and close without first changing the situation."

✦⋆· Imam Baqir (as) said, "Verily the enjoinment of good and the prohibition of wrong is the path of the Prophets, the way of the righteous, a great obligation on which all other obligations are founded and on which ideologies are secured, by which earnings are made lawful, by which iniquities are redressed, through which the earth flourishes, justice is sought from enemies and [Allah's] command is kept upright."

✦⋆· Imam Sadiq (as) said, "Verily the one who enjoins good and prohibits wrong should possess three qualities: he should act upon that which he enjoins and abstain from that which he prohibits; he must be just with regards to what he enjoins and just with regards to what he prohibits; and he must be gentle in what he enjoins and gentle in what he prohibits."

● "It is honour indeed for a believer that when he sees wrong being done, Allah, Mighty and Exalted, knows his heart to have rejected it."

✦⋆· Imam Jawad (as) said, "He who approves of a wicked deed partakes in it."

● "He who witnesses a misdeed and abhors it is as one who was absent thereat, whereas he who is absent from a misdeed and yet contents himself with it is as one who witnessed it."