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Summary of Sunni concepts | Concept (899) | Justice and moderation in enjoining good and forbidding evil
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Summary of the concepts of Ahl al-Sunnah
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Justice and moderation in enjoining good and forbidding evil
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The Shari'ah has indeed set controls for enjoining and forbidding
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which make it a means for spreading good and what Allah loves and is pleased with
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and preventing evil, or mitigating it, from what Allah, the Mighty and Majestic, detests.
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And restraining the corruptors and preventing them from spreading their corruption.
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And based on the foregoing,
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enjoining good should be done with good conduct,
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and forbidding evil should not be done with evil.
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Meaning that enjoining and forbidding should achieve their purpose.
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So, if forbidding an evil results in a greater evil and corruption than it,
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then it is not permissible to forbid it.
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And if enjoining good results in a greater evil and corruption than it,
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then this enjoining should be abandoned.
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Conversely, enjoining and forbidding should not be abandoned out of a vague fear of sedition and corruption that might result from them.
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So the concept of justice in enjoining and forbidding, therefore,
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is moderation between those who neglect enjoining and forbidding
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out of fear of sedition and the imagined corruptions that result from it,
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as adopted by the Murji'ah and the people of immorality and corruption,
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and those who do not consider the benefits and harms and the ultimate consequences of enjoining and forbidding,
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as is the case with the Khawarij and those influenced by them.