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104- AND LET THERE ARISE FROM AMONGST YOU, A NATION THAT CALLS UPON PEOPLE TO DO WHAT IS GOOD AND RIGHT, ENJOINS WHAT IS RIGHT AND FORBIDS WHAT IS WRONG, THESE ARE THE SUCCESSFUL ONES.

105- AND DO NOT BE LIKE THOSE WHO BECAME DIVIDED AND DIFFERED AFTER THE CLEAR SIGNS HAVE COME TO THEM, FOR THEM THERE IS A DREADFUL PUNISHMENT.

This is a command for the Muslim nation that they should be a nation which calls upon people in general, Muslims and non-Muslims, to do what is right and good, to tell people to do the righteous things and forbid them from doing wrong.  This is a duty upon the best nation, and in the mean time a condition for being the best nation, which Allah the Highest spoke about saying: “YOU ARE THE BEST NATION THAT WAS RAISED FOR MANKIND, ENJOINING WHAT IS RIGHT, FORBIDDING WHAT IS WRONG AND BELIEVING IN ALLAH”.  (S: 3 A: 110)

This is an integral part of our faith, so that our faith will be deficient without it.  Allah’s messenger prayer and peace upon him said: “He who sees something wrong, he should change it with his hand, but if he can not, then with his tongue, but if he can not, then with his heart and this is the least of the faith”.  (M: Eman; 78)

Allah’s messenger prayer and peace upon him also said: “There has never been a prophet of those sent before me who did not have disciples and companions, who followed his example and were guided by his commands.  After them came people who say what they do not do, and do what they are not commanded,  Whoever fights them with his hand is a believer, and whoever fight them with his tongue is a believer, but there is not beyond that a grain of Khardal (mustard) of faith”.  (M: Eman; 80)

If we do not fulfill this very important function, which is an integral part of our faith, Allah the Highest will punish us and stops answering our Dawaa to him.  Allah’s messenger prayer and peace upon him said: “By Him who has my soul in his hand, you should enjoin what is right and forbid what is wrong, lest Allah will send his punishment upon you and you will ask him, but he will not answer”.  (T: Fetan; 9 & D: Malahem; 16 & A: 5; 388, 390, 391)

Such an important responsibility that our faith will be deficient if do not carry it out and we will be punished for it.  In the meantime, those who carry it out will succeed in this life and in the Hereafter.

Allah the Highest warns us about falling in the same mistakes of the nations before us.  They differed and disputed among themselves which lead to their divisions into many factions.  They then seized to be one nation and became weak.

Unfortunately we see this happening to the Muslim nation too.  There are bound to disagreements and different opinions about different issues of faith.  There might be different approaches, and then we have Sunni, Sheat, Sufi, Maliky, Shafay, Hanbaly, Hanafi etc.  But as long as the differences are in the secondary branches not the core of the faith, we are all Muslims.  Allah’s messenger prayer and peace upon him said: “He who prays our Salah, and faces our Qibla, eats from the animal we slaughter, this is the Muslim”.  (N: Eman; 9 & D: Jehad; 95 & T: Eman; 2 & A: 3; 199,225)

However, we find people who rush into calling other Muslims, disbelievers, for no just reason.  Allah the Highest is angered by a Muslim calling a Muslim disbeliever so that he considers the first to be the disbeliever.  Allah’s messenger prayer and peace upon him said: “Whenever a man accuses another of wickedness or disbelief, it will bounce back on him if the other man was not as he said”.  (B:Adab;44 & M:Eman;112 & T:Iman;16 & A:4;33,34,166

It is an offence we do easily, while it is great in the Allah’s Eyes.

B: Bukhari    M: Muslim     Mal: Malek    A: Ahmed   D: Abu Dawood     

Da: Daremy       Ma: Ibn Magah            N: Nesae          T: Termezi