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Master Ali Saei
What should someone do if they know they will be mocked for enjoining what is right?
Question No. 3193
31 August 2022
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What should someone do if they know they will be mocked for enjoining what is right?
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If enjoining what is right and forbidding what is wrong is established as a duty, and the person knows they will be mocked for fulfilling it, they should bear that mockery for God’s sake. Such patience brings a double reward and makes them like the great prophets, who were not spared mockery by their own people.
Answer by Master Ali Saei (Abdullah Meshkat)
Teacher and researcher in the intellectual tradition of wisdom and the Ahl al-Bayt | Soroush Bamdadān Cultural CenterIf the duty to enjoin what is right and forbid what is wrong has been established, one should bear the mockery of those who do wrong for God’s sake; a twofold reward will be theirs. God, the All-Knowing, sees their mockery. No prophet has ever been spared the scorn of his people. In such circumstances, one who enjoins what is right becomes like the great prophets.
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