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forbidding.”
It was said to al Thawri: “Do you not enjoining what is good and forbid what is
evil?” He said: “If the sea bursts, who is able to hold it back?”
This explains the real purpose of the Islamic society: that people adopt piety and
virtue in their lives and do their utmost to help eradicate sin, evil and injustice,
and promote and establish virtue, goodness and justice in their individual and
social relationships.
So to conduct human life upon these lines, the Shariah states its norms of virtues
and good (ma‟rufat) and of avoidance of sin and evils (munkarat) to, which the
individual and society conduct must conform. It not merely provides an inventory
of virtues and vices for man but also lays down the whole scheme of life is such a
way that virtues may flourish without being polluted or retarded by vices. The
Shariah (Islamic Law) conducts human society towards the free growth of good,
virtue and truth in every area of life. This gives full play to the forces of good in all
It was said to al Thawri: “Do you not enjoining what is good and forbid what is
evil?” He said: “If the sea bursts, who is able to hold it back?”
This explains the real purpose of the Islamic society: that people adopt piety and
virtue in their lives and do their utmost to help eradicate sin, evil and injustice,
and promote and establish virtue, goodness and justice in their individual and
social relationships.
So to conduct human life upon these lines, the Shariah states its norms of virtues
and good (ma‟rufat) and of avoidance of sin and evils (munkarat) to, which the
individual and society conduct must conform. It not merely provides an inventory
of virtues and vices for man but also lays down the whole scheme of life is such a
way that virtues may flourish without being polluted or retarded by vices. The
Shariah (Islamic Law) conducts human society towards the free growth of good,
virtue and truth in every area of life. This gives full play to the forces of good in all