Keep Away From Wickedness and Immorality

should not stumble. It is almost certain that our free glances would cause us to stumble some time or another.

As God Almighty desires that our eyes and our hearts and all our limbs and organs should continue to be in a state of purity, He has furnished us with this excellent teaching. There can be no doubt that unrestrained looks become a source of danger. If we place soft bread before a hungry dog, it would be vain to hope that the dog should pay no attention to it. Thus, God Almighty desired that human faculties not be provided with any occasion for secret functioning and not be confronted with anything that might incite dangerous tendencies. (Islami Usul ki Philosophy, Ruhani Khaza’in, vol. 10, pp. 343–344)

The second condition also enjoins saving oneself from wickedness and immorality.

Almighty Allah says in the Holy Qur’an:24

And know that among you is the Messenger of Allah; if he were to comply with your wishes in most of the matters, you would surely come to trouble; but Allah has endeared the faith

24.(al-Hujurat, 49:8)

to you and has made it look beautiful to your hearts, and He has made disbelief, wickedness and disobedience hateful to you. Such indeed are those who follow the right course.

In a hadith pertaining to this subject, Hadrat Aswadra narrates from Hadrat Abu Hurairahra that:

When someone is fasting, he should not indulge in foul talk, nor talk of wickedness or ignorance. If someone deals with him in ways of ignorance, he should simply respond, ‘I am fasting.’ (Musnadu Ahmadabni Hanbal, vol. 2, p. 356, printed in

Beirut)

The Holy Prophetsa has also said, ‘To rebuke a believer is wickedness and to fight him is disbelief.’ (Musnadu Ahmadabni

Hanbal, vol. 1, p. 439, printed in Beirut)

‘Abdur-Rahman Bin Shibl narrates the Holy Prophetsa said,

‘The merchants are wicked.’ The narrator adds that he was asked, ‘Does Allah not make trade lawful?’ The Holy

Prophetsa said, ‘Why not? But when they make a deal, they tell lies and raise the price making statements under oath.’

The narrator adds that:

The Holy Prophetsa said, ‘The wicked will be in hell.’ He was asked, ‘Who are the wicked?’ He answered, ‘Some women are wicked.’ A man asked, ‘Prophet of Allah, are they not our mothers, sisters, and wives?’ He answered, ‘Why not? But when something is given to them, they are not grateful; and when a hardship befalls them, they do not show patience.’ (Musnadu Ahmadabni Hanbal, vol. 3, p. 428, printed in Beirut)

The businessmen need to ponder over this. Clean dealings are a condition of bai‘at.

The Promised Messiahas says:

It is established from hadith that the wicked should be punished before the disbelievers…. This is the way of

Allah, that when a nation becomes wicked and immoral, another nation is made to rule over it. (Malfuzat, new edition, vol. 2, p. 653)

Then he says:

When wickedness and immorality exceeded their limits, and people started disrespecting the commandments and signs of

Allah, and were lost into the affairs of the world and its adornment, God caused their ruin at the hands of Halaku and

Changez Khan. It is written that at that time a cry was heard from heaven:25

In short, the wicked and the immoral are lower and more despicable than disbelievers in the eyes of Allah. (Malfuzat, new edition, vol. 3, p. 108)

Then he says:

The prayer of the wicked tyrant is not accepted because he is unmindful of Allah, and thus Allah cares not for him. If a son is unmindful of his obligations to his father, the father does not care about him, because of his disobedience. Why should

25.O disbelievers kill the transgressors.