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Hadith 4933

Chapter on Enjoining Good and Forbidding Evil

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Chapter on Enjoining Good and Forbidding Evil

Zujajat al-Masabih 4933Volume 4

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Jarir ibn Abdullah (may Allah be pleased with him) narrated that he heard the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) say: “No man among a people in whom sins are committed, who are capable 1 of changing them but do not, except that Allah afflicts them 2 with punishment before they die.”
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Commentary and footnotes (4)

Note 1

Capable of changing them

(1) His statement: “Capable of changing them”: It is stated in Al-Alamkiriyyah: Enjoining good requires five things: first, knowledge, for an ignorant person cannot enjoin good properly; second, intending Allah’s pleasure and exalting His word; third, compassion for the one enjoined, addressing him with gentleness; fourth, patience and forbearance; fifth, acting upon what he enjoins, lest he fall under Allah’s statement: “Why do you say what you do not do?” (As-Saff: 2). In Al-Multaqat and Al-Muhit: A man who sees an evil committed by someone must forbid it, for it is obligatory to abandon the evil and forbid it; abandoning one does not exempt the other.

Note 2

Allah afflicts them with punishment, etc.

(2) His statement: “Allah afflicts them with punishment, etc.”: It is stated in Al-Lama’at: Do not suppose this contradicts Allah’s statement: “No bearer of burdens will bear the burden of another” (Al-An’am: 164), for neglecting to change the evil is a sin they committed.

Note 1

قوله

(۱) قوله: يقدرون على أن يغيروا عليه : قال في العالمكيرية»: الأمر بالمعروف يحتاج إلى خمسة أشياء: أولها العلم؛ لأن الجاهل لم يحسن الأمر بالمعروف والثاني: أن يقصد وجه الله تعالى، وإعلاء كلمته العلياء. والثالث: الشفقة على المأمور، فيأمره باللين والشفقة، والرابع: أن يكون صبورا حليها، والخامس : أن يكون عاملا بما يأمره كيلا يدخل تحت قوله تعالى: ﴿لِمَ تَقُولُونَ مَا لَا تَفْعَلُونَ) (الصف: (۲). وفي الملتقط» و «المحيط»: رجل رأى منكرا. وهذا الرأيي ممن يرتكب هذا المنكر يلزمه أن ينهى عنه؛ لأن الواجب عليه ترك المنكر والنهي عنه، فبترك أحدهما لا يسقط عنه الآخر.

Note 2

قوله

(۲) قوله : أصابهم الله منه بعقاب إلخ : قال في اللمعات»: فلا يتوهم أن هذا مخالف لقوله تعالى: ﴿وَلَا تَزِرُ وَازِرَةٌ وِزْرَ أُخْرَى (الأنعام: ١٦٤)؛ فإن ترك التغيير وزر صدر منهم.