Al-IstiqamaIbn Taimiya

That being so, it is clear that enjoining right and forbidding wrong, and completing this through jihad, are among the greatest good deeds we have been commanded to perform. Forbidding wrong includes enforcing the prescribed penalties against those who depart from Allah’s law. Those in authority—the scholars, rulers, and shaykhs of each community—must oversee its people, enjoin right upon them, and forbid them from wrong. They must command them to observe what Allah and His Messenger have commanded, including the prescribed observances of Islam: the five daily prayers at their appointed times, the prescribed alms, the prescribed fasting, and pilgrimage to the Sacred House. This also includes faith in Allah, His angels, His Books, His messengers, and the Last Day, and faith in divine decree, both its good and its evil; and excellence in worship, which is to worship Allah as though you see Him, for even though you do not see Him, He sees you.

They must likewise command the inward and outward deeds commanded by Allah and His Messenger: devoting one’s religion sincerely to Allah, relying upon Him, loving Allah and His Messenger more than anything else, hoping for Allah’s mercy, fearing His punishment, patiently accepting His judgment, and submitting to His command.

This also includes speaking truthfully, fulfilling covenants, returning trusts to their rightful owners, being dutiful to parents, maintaining ties of kinship, cooperating in righteousness and piety, and showing kindness to neighbours, orphans, the needy, travellers, companions, and one’s wife,

واذ كَانَ كَذَلِك فمعلوم ان الامر بِالْمَعْرُوفِ وَالنَّهْي عَن الْمُنكر واتمامه بِالْجِهَادِ هُوَ من اعظم الْمَعْرُوف الَّذِي امرنا بِهِ وَمن النَّهْي عَن الْمُنكر اقامة الْحُدُود على من خرج من شَرِيعَة الله وَيجب على اولى الامر وهم عُلَمَاء كل طَائِفَة وامراؤها ومشايخها ان يقومُوا على عامتهم ويأمروهم بِالْمَعْرُوفِ وينهوهم عَن الْمُنكر فيأمرونهم بِمَا امْر الله بِهِ وَرَسُوله مثل شرائع الاسلام وَهِي الصَّلَوَات الْخمس فِي مواقيتها وَكَذَلِكَ الصَّدقَات الْمَشْرُوعَة وَالصَّوْم الْمَشْرُوع وَحج الْبَيْت الْحَرَام وَمثل الايمان بِاللَّه وَمَلَائِكَته وَكتبه وَرُسُله وَالْيَوْم الاخر والايمان بِالْقدرِ خَيره وشره وَمثل الاحسان وَهُوَ ان تبعد الله كَأَنَّك ترَاهُ فَإِن لم تكن ترَاهُ فانه يراك وَمثل مَا امْر الله بِهِ وَرَسُوله من الامور الْبَاطِنَة وَالظَّاهِرَة وَمثل اخلاص الدّين لله والتوكل على الله وان يكون الله وَرَسُوله احب اليه مِمَّا سواهُمَا والرجاء لرحمة الله والخشية من عَذَابه وَالصَّبْر لحكم الله وَالتَّسْلِيم لأمر الله وَمثل صدق الحَدِيث وَالْوَفَاء بالعهود واداء الامانات الى اهلها وبر الْوَالِدين وصلَة الارحام والتعاون على الْبر وَالتَّقوى والاحسان الى الْجَار واليتيم والمسكين وَابْن السَّبِيل والصاحب وَالزَّوْجَة

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