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Companions: Abu Darda‟ - may Allah be pleased with him - said: “You should
enjoin good and forbid evil or Allah will incite against you an oppressor ruler who
will not respect your elderly nor would he have mercy to your young, the best of
you will pray against him, but their prayer will not be accepted, and you will seek
help but you will not get it, and you will seek forgiveness but will not be forgiven.”
Hathitha - may Allah be pleased with him - was asked about the living dead, he
said: “He is the one who does not forbid the unlawful by his hand nor by his
tongue, nor by his heart.”
Ali ibn Abu Talib - may Allah be pleased with him - said: “The first of what you
overcome in jihad is the jihad with your hands, then jihad with your tongues, then
jihad with your hearts, but if your heart does not know maruf (enjoining good) and
does not forbid the unlawful, then it is turned upside down.”
It was said to Fudail: “Are you not going to enjoin and forbid?” He said: “There
was a people who enjoined and forbade, then they became pagans, this is
because they could not bear patiently the consequences of their enjoining and
enjoin good and forbid evil or Allah will incite against you an oppressor ruler who
will not respect your elderly nor would he have mercy to your young, the best of
you will pray against him, but their prayer will not be accepted, and you will seek
help but you will not get it, and you will seek forgiveness but will not be forgiven.”
Hathitha - may Allah be pleased with him - was asked about the living dead, he
said: “He is the one who does not forbid the unlawful by his hand nor by his
tongue, nor by his heart.”
Ali ibn Abu Talib - may Allah be pleased with him - said: “The first of what you
overcome in jihad is the jihad with your hands, then jihad with your tongues, then
jihad with your hearts, but if your heart does not know maruf (enjoining good) and
does not forbid the unlawful, then it is turned upside down.”
It was said to Fudail: “Are you not going to enjoin and forbid?” He said: “There
was a people who enjoined and forbade, then they became pagans, this is
because they could not bear patiently the consequences of their enjoining and