Abu Dawood has narrated that Abdullah Ibn Masoud (ra) reported that the Prophet (SAW) said; 'The first time deficiency entered the sons of Israel was when one man from among them used to meet another man and say to him: observe your duty to Allah, and leave what you do, because it is not allowed for you to do so. Then the next day he will meet him and yet he is not restrained to eat, drink and sit with him, and when they have done so Allah struck the hearts of some of them against the hearts of others.”
Then the Prophet (saw) read the verses;
“Those among the Children of Israel who disbelieved were cursed by the tongue of Dawud and 'Iesa, son of Maryam. That was because they rebelled and used to transgress. They used not to forbid one another from the Munkar (wrong, evildoing, sins, disbelief, etc.) which they committed. Vile indeed was what they used to do. You see many of them taking the disbelievers as their Auliyâ' (protectors and helpers). Evil indeed is that which their own selves have sent forward before them. For that (reason) Allah’s Wrath fell upon them and in torment they will abide. And had they believed in Allah, and in the Prophet and in what has been revealed to him, never would they have taken them (the disbelievers) as Auliyâ' (protectors and helpers), but many of them are the Fâsiqûn (rebellious, disobedient to Allah).” [EMQ 5: 78-81]
The Prophet (SAW) continued to say: "Nay, by Allah, you either enjoin good and forbid evil and catch hold of the hand of the oppressor and persuade him to act justly and stick to the truth, or, Allah will involve the hearts of some of you with the hearts of others and will curse you as He had cursed them".
These evidences make it clear that Allah (swt) has prohibited us from remaining silent against the evil (munkar), and He (swt) commanded us to remove it. He made this as a duty upon us, and He made the one who remains silent against the Munkar, as those who deserve the curse of Allah. The seriousness of this obligation is stressed by the Messenger (saw):
“By He in Whose Hand is my soul! You will enjoin righteousness and forbid evil, or Allah will send a punishment on you from Him. Then, you will supplicate to Him, but He will not accept your supplication.”
In regards with the way of removing the munkar, and not remaining silent when faced with it, the Shari'ah has manifested that method in the hadith which Muslim narrated about Abi Said Al-Khudari (ra) that the Prophet (SAW) said:
“Whoever of you has seen a Munkar let him change it with his hand, if he can not then by his tongue, and if he can not then by his heart and this is the weakest Eemaan.”
So if the Muslim is capable of removing the munkar by his hand, then it is a duty upon him to embark on removing it, and if he cannot do that, then he must deny it by his tongue openly and attack it by his words publicly. If he cannot even do this, then the least duty upon him is to deny theMunkar in his heart. But if he does not even do this, then he will be sinful in the eyes of Allah.
The obligation of commanding good and forbidding evil is a necessity especially in the current climate that the Muslims face today. With oppression widespread and evil surrounding us it becomes more incumbent upon the Ummah to rise to reverse the situation. Muslims should be conscious that remaining silent about the munkar will cause the punishment and torment to prevail upon all. And that they will not be excluded simply because they never engaged in the evil but it requires them to actually try to prevent the evil. This is made evident by the Prophet (saw):
"The likeness of the man who observes the limits prescribed by Allah and that of the man who transgresses them is like the people who get on board a ship after casting lots. Some of them are in its lower deck and some of them in its upper (deck). Those who are in its lower (deck), when they require water, go to the occupants of the upper deck, and say to them: `If we make a hole in the bottom of the ship, we shall not harm you.' If they (the occupants of the upper deck) leave them to carry out their design they all will be drowned. But if they do not let them go ahead (with their plan), all of them will remain safe". [Al-Bukhari].
"The likeness of the man who observes the limits prescribed by Allah and that of the man who transgresses them is like the people who get on board a ship after casting lots. Some of them are in its lower deck and some of them in its upper (deck). Those who are in its lower (deck), when they require water, go to the occupants of the upper deck, and say to them: `If we make a hole in the bottom of the ship, we shall not harm you.' If they (the occupants of the upper deck) leave them to carry out their design they all will be drowned. But if they do not let them go ahead (with their plan), all of them will remain safe". [Al-Bukhari].
In our era it has become an obligation for the Muslims to rise collectively to forbid the shirk of our time: man-made law, to repel the crusade against Islam and Muslims, to forbid all evils present in our societies, to command that the law of Allah be established, to support all Muslims being oppressed and to command all forms of good that are absent from our societies. Those that engage in this will be the successful ones and will prevent the punishment of Allah from touching them.
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