AMAR BI AL MA`RUF WA N-NAHY AN AL-MUNGKAR

AMAR BI AL MA`RUF WA N-NAHY AN AL-MUNGKAR

DEFINATION:AMAR BI AL MA`RUF WA N-NAHY AN AL-MUNGKAR can be define as enjoining good and forbidding evil. AMAR BI AL MA`RUF WA N-NAHY AN AL-MUNGKAR are one of the main concepts of Islamic teachings.

IN ISLAMIC PERSPECTIVE: AMAR BI AL MA`RUF WA N-NAHY AN AL-MUNGKAR emphasis on doing good and preventing evil.It means avoid doing sins by doing good for rewards in afterlife.The concept of AMAR BI AL MA`RUF WA N-NAHY AN AL-MUNGKAR were mentioned in Quran,verse123:286 Allah say that Allah will not burden somebody to do goods beyond they ability,person that done good will gain reward,and punish those who make evils.In verse 400:120 Allah warns those who make sins will get due recompense for that. AMAR BI AL MA`RUF WA N-NAHY AN AL-MUNGKAR concept is especially important for those in position of leadership,educational and otherwise,approach it`s manifestation of this ideal balance,the more we come closer to the Quranic description of the Muslim Ummah as being the Ummah enjoining what is right and forbidding what is evil,an Ummah,justly balanced,whose members are qualified and deserving to be witness over the nations.This Ummah manifest Tawhid at various levels and in various components.

1- Each of its member manifest the tawhid of spiritual and material,the belief and action, the personal and communal and all other aspects of human life.

2- All races and color are united an one plain,no classes prevail.Superiority of one over the other is only through excellence in righteousness and piety.

3- Its members are loving and caring for one another just like one body if any one part aches,the other respond with fever and sleeplessness

4- The life of individually and collectively live by and stand for justice,and equality.The enomosity of a certain people will not make them unjust and they do not deal in fraud with double standards

5- They cooperate on righteousness and piety and not for evil and aggression

6- All their affairs are conducted by mutual consultation

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KNOWLEDGE IN HUMAN SOCIETY BY SHAHIBUDDIN LAMING.1423/2002

l-amr bi’l-ma`ruf wa’l-nahy `an al-munkar is a religious duty of principal importance. Mentioned in the Koran in several instances, the terminology of this principle of commanding what is right and forbidding what is wrong indicates that it relates to standards of social behavior already established at the time when the Koran came into being. It calls upon the Muslims to live and act in accordance with what is ma`ruf, or known and familiar and therefore approved, and not to do so according to what is munkar, or unknown and unfamiliar and hence not approved. In the course of history, the standards related to this code may have undergone change and specification. In recent years, the principle of commanding right and forbidding wrong attracted wider public attention after it was relied upon in several court cases in Egypt in which people were accused of conduct not in line with public morals. A term derived from the realm of market inspection, these cases came to be known as so-called hisba cases. Today, hisba andal-amr bi’l-ma`ruf wa’l-nahy `an al-munkar appear to be used to express one and the same thing. What the hisba cases illustrated and what has been the problem with al-amr bi’l-ma`ruf wa’l-nahy `an al-munkar from the start is that assessing what is known seems to be an easier task than determinating what is not.it is a concept of doing good deeds and preventing sins or bad deeds.Every good deeds must be done and every bad deeds must be prevented.

Commanding Right and Forbidding Wrong in Islamic Thought, by Michael Cook. 702 pages, bibliography, index. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2000. $85.00 (Cloth) ISBN 0-521-66174-9

KNOWLEDGE IN HUMAN SOCIETY BY SHAHIBUDDIN LAMING.1423/2002