"And there should be a party among you who invite (others)...

"And there should be a party among you who invite (others) to good and enjoin what is right and forbid the wrong ..." In the society, the invitation to benevolence is prior to enjoining the right. To improve a society and to prevent corruption and corruptive people, without the existence of authority and a definite responsible manager, is impossible. Those who compassionately sympathize with the development and improvement of the society are the true prosperous ones: "...

those are they that shall be prosperous." Invitation to benevolence, enjoining the right and forbidding the wrong should ceaselessly be performed in the society, not in the form of seasonal and temporary movements. Prosperity is not found only in personal delivery, but the prosperity and delivery of others are also from its conditions. The invitor to benevolence and right would be Islamicist, anthropologist, and one who knows the methods.

It is for this reason that it is said that some of the members of community have special duty, not all of them. Enjoining the right is prior to forbidding the wrong, because if the way of what is right be open, there will be little possibility for committing wrong. Surah 'Ali-Imran, Verse 105 وَلاَ تَكُونُواْ كَالَّذِينَ تَفَرَّقُواْ وَاخْتَلَفُواْ مِن بَعْدِ مَا جَاءهُمُ الْبَيِّنَاتُ وَأُوْلَـئِكَ لَهُمْ عَذَابٌ عَظِيمٌ 105 ***.

"And be not like those who separated, and disagreed after clear evidences had come to them; and these are they that will have a grievous chastisement."*** We ought to learn lessons from the bitter divergences between schools of the former times: "And be not like those who separated,.." We should know that the root of separations is not always only the factor of ignorance, because desires also cause discord. "...

and disagreed after clear evidences had come to them..." Separation and disagreement not only breaks your power in this present world and finally destroys it, but also brings Fire of Hell to you in the Hereafter. "... and those are they that will have a grievous chastisement." Surah 'Ali-Imran, Verse 106 يَوْمَ تَبْيَضُّ وُجُوهٌ وَتَسْوَدُّ وُجُوهٌ فَأَمَّا الَّذِينَ اسْوَدَّتْ وُجُوهُهُمْ أَكْفَرْتُم بَعْدَ إِيمَانِكُمْ فَذُوقُواْ الْعَذَابَ بِمَا كُنْتُمْ تَكْفُرُونَ 106.

"On the Day when some faces will turn while some faces will turn black! Then as to those whose faces turn black (will be said): 'Did you disbelieve after your believing?

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