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Enjoining right and forbidding wrong

EVERY HUMAN BEING IS IN NEED OF ENJOINING AND FORBIDDING

Every one on the face of the earth must of necessity have enjoining and forbidding. It is a must that he be ordered and forbidden. Even if he was completely alone, he would order himself and forbid -- either with what is good, or with what is evil, as Allah said about the human self:

[And, verily the self is ever ordering (one to commit) evil.] Qur'an 12/53

Ordering is in essence requesting a particular action, and intending it, while forbidding is requesting the avoidance of a particular action, and intending it.