Thanks be to Allah, the
Lord of the worlds. Peace and prayers be upon the
most honorable of all messengers Mohammad; and all his folks, companions, and
followers to the day they are all summoned together.
In the name of Allah
Most Gracious Most Merciful
The messenger Mohammad (PPBU)
was the first to command or solicit the right and forbid or deter the wrong to
his nation. He also ordered his followers to do the same. He was reported
saying: “He of you who sees wrong, let him make it right by action. If he can
not, let him make it right by words. If he can not, let him make it right by
his heart. And that is the weakest of the believers”
In his wisdom, he make
right and worn differ. The right has those who adopt it and the wrong has
those who adopt it. They continuously compete. Some times those get the
advantage and some times the others do. But, one thing the people of the right
never give up is soliciting the right and deterring the wrong.
Allah says “Those
believing men and believing women, support each other, they solicit right and
deter against wrong”. Allah also says: “Hypocrite men and hypocrite women they
are of the same, they solicit the wrong and deter the right” Surat Tawbah Aya
68. Allah made a difference between believers and hypocrites which is
soliciting the right and deterring the wrong.
Allah says “They are not
equals. Some of the people of the book a nation in a straight path, reciting
the verses of Allah during the night when they are kneeling, believing in
Allah, the day after, soliciting the right and deterring the wrong, actively
do good. They are the righteous ones” Sadaqa Allah al-3azeem. For Allah did
not declare them righteous just by believing in Allah and in the day after. It
is only when Allah added the condition of soliciting the right and deterring
the wrong that he stated they are righteous.
Dear brothers,
soliciting the right, and its highest level is preaching for Allah, and
deterring the wrong are both obligations upon each Muslim based on the
ability. They are part of a Muslim’s features or characters.
Some tend to remember
Allah saying: “Yea people, Take care of your selves. It would not cause you
any harm if one goes stray if you remained on the straight path”. Some use
this Ayah to leave alone reciting the right and deterring the wrong. Abu-Bakr
was reported saying: “people, you read this Ayah and apply in the wrong
situation. And I heard the messenger PPBU say: If people see a wrong and they
do not change it, Allah would almost places upon them some of it as
punishment”
A Muslim should start
with himself first to solicit the right and deter the wrong. Oneself is ought
to be the first to target. That was the messenger’s companions, the scholars
and the righteous after them. Allah says: “do you order people with kindness
and doing good and forget about yourselves while you recite the Book. Are you
out of your minds?”
Allah also says: “You
believers, why do you preach what you do not do? What a great dislike to Allah
that you say what you do not do”
The messenger PPBU said:
“In the day after, a man is flung into the hell fire. People get round him and
ask him, didn’t you use to solicit right and deter wrong? The man would say,
indeed, I used to solicit right and never do it, and deter you from wrong and
I used to do the wrong”. He is being hard upon for disobeying what he preached
people with.
