Abandoning "Enjoining the Good and Forbidding Wrong" as an Act of Worship

 

The Hour will approach… when good is abandoned and nobody enjoins it, and evil is committed and no one forbids it. (Mukhtasar Tazkirah Qurtubi, p.480)

 

 

The Hour draws near and the good deeds diminish. (Muhammad ibn ‘Abd al-Rasul Barzanji, Al-Isha‘ah li-ashrat al-sa‘ah, p.264)

 

With the verse “Let there be a community among you who call to the good, and enjoin the right, and forbid the wrong. They are the ones who have success.” (Qur’an, 3:104), God makes it compulsory (fardh) for people to enjoin good and forbid evil. People’s failure to observe this command of God is a sign of the Hour as well as the Prophet Jesus’ (pbuh) coming to Earth, which is an event that herald the great events due to occur before the Hour.