Commanding Good and Forbidding Evil in the Community

I mentioned previously that this work is the task of the entire community, and it is one of the most important obligations in the Islamic law, by which we can win the satisfaction of Allah and expose the tyrants . And we must focus on reforming the souls of those who are submissive to the tyrant, so we remind them of the Quran and the prophets pbut and their jihad against the tyrants: The Almighty said, ﴾Indeed, We will support Our messengers and those who believe during the life of this world and on the Day when the witnesses will stand .﴿^[1] The Almighty said, ﴾21 Allah has written, “I will surely overcome, I and My messengers .” Indeed, Allah is powerful and exalted in might . 22 You will not find a people who believe in Allah and the Last Day having affection for those who oppose Allah and His Messenger, even if they were their fathers or their sons or their brothers or their kindred . Those-He has decreed within their hearts faith and supported them with spirit from Him . And He will admit them to gardens beneath which rivers flow, wherein they abide eternally . Allah is pleased with them, and they are pleased with Him-those are the party of Allah . Unquestionably, the party of Allah-they are the successful .﴿^[2] The Almighty said, ﴾171 And verily Our word went forth for Our sent worshippers . 172 That they verily are supported, 173 and that Our soldiers, they verily would be the victors .﴿^[3] Whoever has within himself even an ember of truth will remember and return to the allegiance of Allah and will not obey the commands of the tyrant, and will join the ranks of the believers . As for the wretched one who thinks that his surrendering to the tyrant will save him and keep him alive, do not feel remorse for him, for he thinks that life is in the hand of the tyrant, not in the hand of Allah! And his soul collapsed onto the fear and cowardliness from the tyrant until it became a secondary nature . As for the supporters of the tyrant, the hearts of the most of them have blackened and their insights have blinded, and they have come to see the evil to be good and the good to be evil, but this does not mean

that we abandon them all to be wood for hellfire, for there might be among them one who can be reformed and made to return to the allegiance of Allah . And let there be for us as believers an example in al-Hussain pbuh , as he advised the army of Yazeed bin Muawya (may Allah curse them), and he commanded them to do good and forbade them from evil, so the result was the return of one of the leaders of the Ummayad army to the truth, and he is al-Horr bin Yazeed al-Riyahi (may Allah be satisfied with him) . And if there were no result from the sermon of Abu Abdullah pbuh except for this one, it would be sufficient . And believers must be cautious and careful advising this misguided group . And their kinship and whoever is safe from their harm must advise them and try to reform them . And the believers should not give up on reforming the Islamic community, for they are the party of Allah and His soldiers, Allah has written success and overcoming for them, and Allah swt will send to them the divine leader al-Mahdi pbuh , the great reformer, and the executor of Allah’s law on the earth, and the Word which went forth from Allah to His sent worshippers, and His swt promise of victory to them, and the sun must rise after this long absence and bitter suffering, so work day and night, and secretly and openly, and know that the reward of the believer who works in this time to prepare the foundation for the State of the Owner of the Age pbuh is great . Abu Abdullah pbuh said, ﴾The Prophet of Allah pbuhap said, ‘Glad tidings to those who will reach the Riser from my progeny and follow him before his rising, who support his supporter and repudiate his enemy, and take the guiding Imams pbut before him as masters, those are my companions and they are the ones who have my love and my affection, and they are the most generous of my nation toward me .’” Rafaa said [that he pbuhap said], “And they are the most generous of Allah’s creation toward me .”﴿^[4] And al-Sadiq pbuh said, ﴾The Messenger of Allah pbuhap said to his companions, ‘There will come a people after you, the one man of them will have the reward of fifty of you .’ They said, ‘O Messenger of Allah we were with you in Badr, and Uhud, and Honayn, and we were mentioned in the Quran .’ So he pbuhap said, ‘If you had to carry what

they carried, you would not have had the patience they had .’”﴿^[5] Muhammad bin Abdul Khaleq and Abu Baseer said that Abu Abdullah pbuh said, ﴾O Abu Muhammad, by Allah we have a secret from the secrets of Allah and knowledge from the knowledge of Allah . By Allah no close angel, or sent prophet, or a believer whose heart has been tested by Allah for faith can bear it . By Allah, Allah has not assigned that for anyone except for us, and no one has been subjugated with that except for us . And we have a secret from the secrets of Allah and a knowledge from the knowledge of Allah . Allah commanded us to report it, so we reported from Allah the Almighty what He commanded us to report, so we did not find any position, people, or bearers to bear it, until Allah created for that matter people who were created from the mud from which Muhammad pbuhap and his progeny pbut were created, and they were created from the light from which Allah created Muhammad pbuhap and his progeny pbut , and He created them by the favor of His mercy, [the favor] from which He created Muhammad pbuhap and his progeny pbut , so we reported from Allah what He commanded us to report, so they accepted it and bore it, and when our remembrance reached them, their hearts leaned toward our knowledge and words, so if they had not been created from that, they would not have been this way, and by Allah they would not have bore it .” He pbuh then said, “Allah created for the hellfire a creation, and He commanded us to report to them as we reported to the previous ones, so they were repulsed by it, their hearts repelled away and they returned it to us and did not bear it, and they denied it, and said ‘A magician and a liar,’ so Allah sealed their hearts and made them forget that, then Allah made their tongues speak some of the Truth, so they speak it and their hearts deny it, and this pushes away the harm from His supporters and the people of His obedience . And if it was not for that, Allah would not have been worshipped on His earth, and Allah commanded us to withhold and conceal from them, so withhold from whoever Allah commanded you to withhold from, and conceal from whoever Allah commanded you to conceal from .” He then raised his hand and cried, and said, “O Allah, those are a small minority so make our life their life, and our death their death,

and do not let an enemy of Yours dominate them, so by that You cause us to mourn them, for if You caused us to mourn them, You will never be worshipped on Your land, and send Your peace and prayers upon Muhammad and his progeny .”﴿^[6]