Enjoining good and forbidding evil is one of the primary obligations of the believers in Islam. It is indeed a very firm pillar
of Islam upon which the branches of faith are held. Yet today, the different groups within the Ummah have turned this
pillar of faith on its head. They viciously compete among themselves for
forbidding good and enjoining evil. They leave a trail of blood of fellow Muslim
brothers murdered in the streets and even in the Mosques. In his Friday
Sermon of April 13, 2012 Khalifatullah Hadhrat Munir
Ahmad Azim Sahib (atba) of Mauritius continued his
magisterial survey on the spiritual ailments that afflict the Islamic world
today. ‘True Muslims have become rare’, observes the Messenger of Allah. Drawing upon the sacred traditions of the Holy Prophet (sa), the
Khalifatullah shows how the Ahmadiyya Community and the wider Islamic world have
drifted away from the quintessential spirit of the religion.
Read the Extracts from the Sermon:
“...I shall put
before you a Hadith reported by Hazrat
Aisha (ra):
“The Messenger of Allah (sa) came (home) and from the expression on his blessed face, I understood that something was wrong. He did not utter any word. After performing his ablution, he went directly to the Mosque. I (Aisha) also went near the wall of the Mosque to listen to what he had to say. The Messenger of Allah (sa) stood up on the pulpit and after praising Allah, said:
“O Muslims, Allah has ordered you to enjoin good and forbid evil, otherwise a time shall come when you shall invoke (Allah), and He (Allah) shall not respond, you shall ask a favour of Him (Allah) and He shall not give you and you shall seek help from Him and He shall refuse.” (Targhib)
“The Messenger of Allah (sa) came (home) and from the expression on his blessed face, I understood that something was wrong. He did not utter any word. After performing his ablution, he went directly to the Mosque. I (Aisha) also went near the wall of the Mosque to listen to what he had to say. The Messenger of Allah (sa) stood up on the pulpit and after praising Allah, said:
“O Muslims, Allah has ordered you to enjoin good and forbid evil, otherwise a time shall come when you shall invoke (Allah), and He (Allah) shall not respond, you shall ask a favour of Him (Allah) and He shall not give you and you shall seek help from Him and He shall refuse.” (Targhib)
In another
Hadith, Hazrat Abu Huraira narrated
that the Messenger of Allah has said: “When my
community shall begin to give much more importance to this (temporal) world
over the next world, and consider it as a source of honour, fear (of God) and
the value of Islam shall disappear from their hearts. When you shall stop
enjoining good and forbid evil, you shall be deprived from the blessings of
revelation, and when each shall criticise one another, you shall fall into
disgrace in the sight of Allah.” (Hakim)
Therefore, from
these two Hadiths which I have put before you, it is clear that when you leave
this message which is to be put into practice, that is “Amr bil Ma’ruf wa nahi
anil Munkar” (Enjoin good
and forbid evil), it is a fact that this is the primary reason which has
brought about the wrath, displeasure and curse of Allah (on Muslims).