Advice sent to Shatibi institute.
12 May 2024 • 1.48K views

I ask Allah to allow them to accept and rectify the matter.
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I remind the student who wrote this email with the following:
There's great joy that comes with commanding good and forbidding evil. Sometimes you may experience part of this joy in this Dunya when you see your advice being accepted and put into practice. The Prophet ﷺ described this joy saying:
((تِلْكَ عَاجِلُ بُشْرَى الْمُؤْمِنِ))
"That is the glad tidings which a believer receives (in this life)" [Muslim 2642]
However, on many occasions your advise may not recieve any acceptance, and you may be trialled. For this reason, bear in mind the advice of Luqman to his son:
{یَـٰبُنَیَّ أَقِمِ ٱلصَّلَوٰةَ وَأۡمُرۡ بِٱلۡمَعۡرُوفِ وَٱنۡهَ عَنِ ٱلۡمُنكَرِ وَٱصۡبِرۡ عَلَىٰ مَاۤ أَصَابَكَۖ إِنَّ ذَ ٰلِكَ مِنۡ عَزۡمِ ٱلۡأُمُورِ}
"O my son! Aqim-As-Salât (perform As-Salât), enjoin (on people) Al-Ma‘rûf - (Islâmic Monotheism and all that is good), and forbid (people) from Al-Munkar (i.e. disbelief in the Oneness of Allâh, polytheism of all kinds and all that is evil and bad), and BEAR WITH PATIENCE WHATEVER BEFALLS YOU. Verily, these are some of the important commandments (ordered by Allâh with no exemption)."
[Surah Luqmān: 17]
As-Si'di rahimahullah explained:
ولما علم أنه لا بد أن يبتلى إذا أمر ونهى، وأن في الأمر والنهي مشقة على النفوس، أمره بالصبر على ذلك.
"When he realised that he will inevitably endure trials when commanding [good] and forbidding [evil], and that commanding [good] and forbidding [evil] is burdensome on the souls, he ordered patience upon that."