سنن ابن ماجه
Ibn Majah
كتاب الفتنChapters on Tribulations
بَابُ : الأَمْرِ بِالْمَعْرُوفِ وَالنَّهْيِ عَنِ الْمُنْكَرِChapter: Enjoining what is good and forbidding what is evil
Hadith 4004
اُردوEn
حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو بَكْرِ بْنُ أَبِي شَيْبَةَ , حَدَّثَنَا مُعَاوِيَةُ بْنُ هِشَامٍ a> , عَنْ هِشَامِ بْنِ سَعْدٍ , عَنْ عَمْرِو بْنِ عُثْمَانَ , عَنْ عَاصِمِ بْنِ عُمَرَ بْنِ عُثْمَانَ , عَنْ عُرْوَةَ , عَنْ عَائِشَةَ , قَالَتْ : سَمِعْتُ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ , يَقُولُ : " مُرُوا بِالْمَعْرُوفِ , وَانْهَوْا عَنِ الْمُنْكَرِ , قَبْلَ أَنْ تَدْعُوا فَلَا يُسْتَجَابَ لَكُمْ " .
´It was narrated that ‘Aishah said:` “I heard the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) say: ‘enjoin what is good and forbid what is evil, before you call and you are not answered.’”
Explanation & Benefits
Maulana Ataullah Sajid
Benefits and Issues:
➊
To enjoin good means to encourage goodness in an appropriate manner.
A ruler may command his subjects, a father his children, and a husband his wife, as they are obliged to obey him.
Others cannot be commanded in this manner.
➋
If one has the power to forbid evil, then it should be done by hand (such as a ruler, parents, or husband, etc.).
Otherwise, it is necessary to forbid with the tongue (as a scholar admonishes the public).
If even this is not possible, then it is necessary to harbor hatred for the sin in the heart.
➌
Committing sins becomes an obstacle to the acceptance of supplications; therefore, one should repent.
➊
To enjoin good means to encourage goodness in an appropriate manner.
A ruler may command his subjects, a father his children, and a husband his wife, as they are obliged to obey him.
Others cannot be commanded in this manner.
➋
If one has the power to forbid evil, then it should be done by hand (such as a ruler, parents, or husband, etc.).
Otherwise, it is necessary to forbid with the tongue (as a scholar admonishes the public).
If even this is not possible, then it is necessary to harbor hatred for the sin in the heart.
➌
Committing sins becomes an obstacle to the acceptance of supplications; therefore, one should repent.
Source: Commentary on Sunan Ibn Mājah by Mawlānā ‘Atā’ullāh Sājid, Page: 4004
