'Enjoining Good and Forbidding
Evil’ or Amr Bil Maaroof, Nahi Anil Munkir: Qur'an Exegetes and Hadith
Interpreters Dispel Notions of Aggression and Violence That Wahhabis
Associate with This Doctrine
By Ghulam Ghaus, New Age Islam
October 16, 2013
Enjoining
people to do good and forbidding them from evil (Amr bil Maaroof, Nahi
anil Munkir) is a doctrine mentioned in the Quran a few times. Wahhabism
associates it with use of force, coercion and violence in society. The
words ‘Amr’ and ‘Nahi’ have a variety of meanings but they are beyond
every notion of aggression. The classical Quran exegetes and the
traditions of the prophet (pbuh) have explained them well enough for us
to be able to refute the false interpretations of this verse. In recent
times, this doctrine has been misused to provide the pretext for
allowing violence being inflicted on innocents in the name of
establishing Islamic law (Sharia). The Taliban justify all tier
cruelties on the pretext of following this doctrine. The perpetrators of
such crimes, the extremist Talibani-Wahhabi ideologues who the
following exegetic analysis refers to, are themselves the evil doers who
should be forbidden from their evil practices.
Talibani-Wahhabi Muslims in their mouthpiece “Nawa-e-Afghan Jihad”, or Al-Qaeda-inspired magazines like Azaan, interpret
“enjoining good and forbidding evil” more fanatically than we majority
of mainstream Muslims can even imagine. Such a violent manner that they
have pursued corresponds neither to natural human prudence nor to the
will of God Almighty as we understand it. Usually they quote the
following Hadith to justify their use of force in forbidding evil
regardless of whether the majority of Muslims even consider that act as
evil or not:
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