Amr bil Ma'ruf [Enjoininq what is right]
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Imam Amir-ul-Mu'mineen Ali [a] said
"O' Believers! Whoever sees that a wrong act is being done, or a forbidden act is being advertised for and disapproves of these acts with his heart, remains healthy and stays pure from such wrong acts. But whoever forbids such acts verbally is more superior and receives a higher reward. Whoever forbids such acts with his sword in order to establish Allah's words and reject the oppressors is on the straight path to guidance. He is on the path to prosperity, and his heart will be filled with the light of certitude."
Mishkat ul-Anwar, Section 1 on Faith, Islam & Related Issues,Chapter 13 On Enjoining the Right and Forbidding the Wrong, Hadees 223 link
Keep away from the unlawful to be the most (obedient) servant of God, and be convinced with your destined share to be needless of all people.
Nahj al Fasahah, Tradition No. 1118, Page No. 160 link
Keep away from a leprous as you do from a wild animal. Should (s)he settle somewhere, you do settle somewhere else.
Nahj al Fasahah, Tradition No. 1119, Page No. 160 link
I will inform you of what authority is, if you ask me to do so. It begins with blame, leads to remorse and ends up with the torment of the Day of Judgment.
Nahj al Fasahah, Tradition No. 977, Page No. 138 link
If you knew what was behind questioning, nobody would ever make a request to anybody else.
Nahj al Fasahah, Tradition No. 1032, Page No. 145 link
If you seek the love of God and that of the Prophet, return the things given to you in trust, be honest in speaking and treat your neighbors well.
Nahj al Fasahah, Tradition No. 1037, Page No. 146 link
Do not make yourself afraid of religion.
Nahj al Fasahah, Tradition No. 496, Page No. 72 link
"Enjoining the right and forbidding the wrong are two of Allah's creatures. Whoever assists them will be honored by Allah, and whoever abandons them will be abandoned by Allah."
Mishkat ul-Anwar, Section 1 on Faith, Islam & Related Issues,Chapter 13 On Enjoining the Right and Forbidding the Wrong, Hadees 224 link
"Whoever has the following characteristics will enjoin the right and forbid the wrong: is knowledgeable about the right and abandons the wrong; is moderate and just concerning what he enjoins as right, and what he forbids as wrong; and behaves according to what he enjoins and/or forbids."
Mishkat ul-Anwar, Section 1 on Faith, Islam & Related Issues,Chapter 13 On Enjoining the Right and Forbidding the Wrong, Hadees 225 link
"I saw a man from my nation in a dream. He was surrounded by the Fire of Hell. At once his acts of enjoining the right and forbidding the wrong came to his help and saved him from the Fire and handed him over to the angels."
Mishkat ul-Anwar, Section 1 on Faith, Islam & Related Issues,Chapter 13 On Enjoining the Right and Forbidding the Wrong, Hadees 226 link
"Woe to the people who do not pay back their debts to Allah by enjoining the right and forbidding the wrong."
Mishkat ul-Anwar, Section 1 on Faith, Islam & Related Issues,Chapter 13 On Enjoining the Right and Forbidding the Wrong, Hadees 227 link
"A man from the Khasa'em tribe went to see the Prophet of Allah (a.s) and said: "O' Prophet of Allah! Please tell me what is the noblest form of submission to Allah?" He replied: "Faith in Allah." Then he asked: "What is next?" The Prophet replied: "Visiting the relations of kin." Then he asked: "What is next?" The Prophet replied: "Enjoining the right and forbidding the wrong." The man asked: "What is the most despised act near Allah?" He said: "Being an infidel." He asked: "What is the next worst thing?" He said: "Cutting off relations of kin." He asked: "What is next?" He replied: "Enjoining the wrong and forbidding the right."
Mishkat ul-Anwar, Section 1 on Faith, Islam & Related Issues,Chapter 13 On Enjoining the Right and Forbidding the Wrong, Hadees 228 link
"What would you do if all your women were corrupt and your youth were deviated, and no one enjoined the right and forbade the wrong?" He was asked: "O' Prophet of Allah! Will this happen?" He replied: "Yes. It will get even worse. What will you do when the people enjoin the wrong and forbid the right?" He was asked: "O' Prophet of Allah! Will things ever get this way?" He replied: "Yes, it will get even worse than this. What will you do when the people consider the right as the wrong and the wrong as the right?"
Mishkat ul-Anwar, Section 1 on Faith, Islam & Related Issues,Chapter 13 On Enjoining the Right and Forbidding the Wrong, Hadees 229 link
"When the following verse was revealed: "O' ye who believe! Save yourselves and your families from a Fire!" [The Holy Quran: Tahrim 66:6], a Muslim man sat down and started to cry. He said: "I am not even able to protect myself from the Fire, now I am ordered to protect my family from the Fire, too." The Prophet of Allah (a.s) said: "It suffices for you to enjoin the right and forbid the wrong for them in the same way that you do it for yourself."
Mishkat ul-Anwar, Section 1 on Faith, Islam & Related Issues,Chapter 13 On Enjoining the Right and Forbidding the Wrong, Hadees 230 link
Imam Ali ibn Musa al-Rida [a] said
Imam Reza (a.s) narrated that the Prophet of Allah (a.s) said: : "My nation should prepare itself for divine calamities whenever they abandon enjoining the right and forbidding the wrong."
Mishkat ul-Anwar, Section 1 on Faith, Islam & Related Issues,Chapter 13 On Enjoining the Right and Forbidding the Wrong, Hadees 231 link
: "Whenever a zealous Muslim observes that a forbidden act takes place, it suffices for him to know that Allah is aware of his disapproval and displeasure."
Mishkat ul-Anwar, Section 1 on Faith, Islam & Related Issues,Chapter 13 On Enjoining the Right and Forbidding the Wrong, Hadees 232 link
Ghiyas ibn Ibrahim said: "Whenever Imam Sadiq (a.s) reached a group of people who were quarrelling, he would loudly say: "fear Allah" three times and pass by them."
Mishkat ul-Anwar, Section 1 on Faith, Islam & Related Issues,Chapter 13 On Enjoining the Right and Forbidding the Wrong, Hadees 233 link
"Whoever seeks the pleasure of the people in what raises Allah's anger will be admonished by the people who used to admire him before. Allah will protect whoever prefers to obey Allah, despite the people's displeasure, from any enemies. Allah the Almighty will remove from him the jealousy of any jealous ones, and the oppression of any oppressors, and will be his helper and protector."
Mishkat ul-Anwar, Section 1 on Faith, Islam & Related Issues,Chapter 13 On Enjoining the Right and Forbidding the Wrong, Hadees 234 link
Enjoining the right and forbidding the wrong will only affect a believer or an ignorant person who learns from these acts, but it will not affect a person who is armed to the teeth."
Mishkat ul-Anwar, Section 1 on Faith, Islam & Related Issues,Chapter 13 On Enjoining the Right and Forbidding the Wrong, Hadees 236 link
Allah the Almighty has left a believer's affairs up to himself, but has not abandoned him to be humiliated. Have you not heard Allah's words: "But honor belongs to Allah and His Apostle, and to the Believers." [The Holy Quran: Munafiqun 63:8]; Therefore believers are honored, not abased." He then added: "Believers are even nobler than the mountains since we can knock down the mountains and destroy them, but nothing can diminish a believer's faith.
Mishkat ul-Anwar, Section 1 on Faith, Islam & Related Issues,Chapter 13 On Enjoining the Right and Forbidding the Wrong, Hadees 237 link
You must enjoin the right and forbid the wrong, else the bad people will rule over you, and the prayers of your good people will not be answered."
Mishkat ul-Anwar, Section 1 on Faith, Islam & Related Issues,Chapter 13 On Enjoining the Right and Forbidding the Wrong, Hadees 238 link
It is not good for a believer to do something to get humiliated. He was asked: "What will humiliate him?" Imam Sadiq (a.s) replied: "When he does something for which he has to apologize later.
Mishkat ul-Anwar, Section 1 on Faith, Islam & Related Issues,Chapter 13 On Enjoining the Right and Forbidding the Wrong, Hadees 239 link
Masaedat ibn Sadaqih narrated that Imam Sadiq (a.s) was asked if it was incumbent upon the entire nation to enjoin the right and forbid the wrong. He replied in the negative. They asked him the reason. He said "It is incumbent upon those who are in power whom the people obey and can distinguish between the right and the wrong. It is not incumbent upon the weak people who do not know how to approach this issue, and might say wrong things about what is right. That is why Allah says: "Let there arise out of you a band of people inviting to all that is good, enjoining the right, and forbidding what is wrong. [The Holy Quran: Al-i-Imran 3:104]. But this is especial, and not general. As Allah the Almighty said: "Of the people of Moses there is a chapter who guide and do justice in the light of truth." [The Holy Quran: Araf 7:159]. He has not said it is for all the people of Moses or all his tribe to enjoin the right and forbid the wrong, even though there were many groups there. And by people it is meant more than one, as Allah the Almighty said: "Abraham was indeed a model, devoutly obedient to Allah." [The Holy Quran: Nahl 16:120]. In this verse it is said that he was obedient to Allah. Therefore it is not incumbent upon anyone who does not have any power, helpers or followers at peace time."
Mishkat ul-Anwar, Section 1 on Faith, Islam & Related Issues,Chapter 13 On Enjoining the Right and Forbidding the Wrong, Hadees 240 link
Masaedat ibn Sadaqih said that Imam Sadiq (a.s) was questioned about the Prophet's statement: "The best form of Jihad -holy war- is expressing what is just in the presence of an oppressive ruler." Imam Sadiq (a.s) said "This act will only be accepted of him if his enjoining the right is based on knowledge, otherwise it is not accepted."
Mishkat ul-Anwar, Section 1 on Faith, Islam & Related Issues,Chapter 13 On Enjoining the Right and Forbidding the Wrong, Hadees 241 link
"Allah the Almighty revealed the following to the Prophet Shu'aib (a.s): "I shall punish one hundred thousand people from your nation. Forty thousand of them are from the wicked ones, and sixty thousand of them are from the good people." Shu'aib (a.s) asked: "You punish the bad people. Why are the good people punished?" Allah the Almighty revealed to him: "They are the people who got along with the sinners, and were not worried about My Anger."
Mishkat ul-Anwar, Section 1 on Faith, Islam & Related Issues,Chapter 13 On Enjoining the Right and Forbidding the Wrong, Hadees 242 link
: "The people will live in prosperity as long as they cooperate with each other in enjoining the right and forbidding the wrong. However, once they stop doing so, their blessings will be taken away from them, and some will rule over others, and they will have no helpers in the heavens or on the Earth."
Mishkat ul-Anwar, Section 1 on Faith, Islam & Related Issues,Chapter 13 On Enjoining the Right and Forbidding the Wrong, Hadees 243 link
Imam Amir-ul-Mu'mineen Ali [a] said
"Whoever stops physical, verbal and spiritual enjoining of the right and forbidding of the wrong is like a living corpse that seems to be alive."
Mishkat ul-Anwar, Section 1 on Faith, Islam & Related Issues,Chapter 13 On Enjoining the Right and Forbidding the Wrong, Hadees 244 link
It is not abstinence to abandon the lawful or to waste one's wealth. Abstinence, in fact, lies in trusting not what you possess more than what God possesses, and in being more desirous for its (eternal) reward when calamity befalls than for its non-occurrence.
Nahj al Fasahah, Tradition No. 1087, Page No. 154 link
It is not your enemy whose murder by you brings you prosperity, and your murder by him brings you Paradise; rather, your worst enemy is(perhaps) your own child and the wealth you have earned.
Nahj al Fasahah, Tradition No. 1090, Page No. 154 link
It is clear what is lawful and what is unlawful. Thus, keep distance with what you doubt about, and stick to what you don't.
Nahj al Fasahah, Tradition No. 1085, Page No. 153&154 link
Blessed is the one who has a long life, good deeds and a happy ending, for God is pleased with him, and woe to the one who has a long life, evil deeds and an unhappy ending, for God is displeased with him.
Nahj al Fasahah, Tradition No. 342, Page No. 53 link
Ascended to me Gabriel and said: "Muhammad! Live as long as you wish, for you will finally perish, love whatever you mind, for you will leave it behind and do whatever you want to do, for its reward will come back to you. Know that night vigilance (for worship) is man's dignity and needlessness from people shows his magnanimity.
Nahj al Fasahah, Tradition No. 230, Page No. 38 link
Assign people their due status(value) of good and evil.
Nahj al Fasahah, Tradition No. 241, Page No. 40 link
Blessed are horses' foreheads.
Nahj al Fasahah, Tradition No. 336, Page No. 52 link
Blessed are the sincere ones who are lights of guidance, enlightening all dark seditions through their brightness.
Nahj al Fasahah, Tradition No. 337, Page No. 52 link
Blessed are those who take precedence over others in seeking God's support, who accept the truth when they face it, and who judge among people as they do for themselves.
Nahj al Fasahah, Tradition No. 338, Page No. 52&53 link
Blessed is he whose faults stop him attending to people's faults.
Nahj al Fasahah, Tradition No. 339, Page No. 53 link
Blessed is one who connives at ignorance, dispenses the excess of his wealth, and treats people justly.
Nahj al Fasahah, Tradition No. 340, Page No. 53 link
Blessed is the one who controls his tongue and sobs for his sins.
Nahj al Fasahah, Tradition No. 341, Page No. 53 link
Blessed is the one whom God has given sufficient sustenance with which he is satisfied.
Nahj al Fasahah, Tradition No. 346, Page No. 54 link
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