

Enjoining Good & Forbidding Evil - Do This First
22 snips Sep 20, 2025
The talk kicks off with a focus on raising communal awareness before offering advice, highlighting the importance of educational philosophy in enjoining good. It delves into innate morality and the need for listening over condemning. Key themes include the significance of humility when passing judgment and knowing when to speak up on moral issues. The conversation emphasizes mutual counsel, creating a caring community, and ends with a heartfelt appeal for support to access valuable Quranic resources.
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Teach Before You Enforce
- 'Amr bil-ma'ruf' begins with raising awareness, not immediate enforcement.
- You must teach and make good known before commanding others to act on it.
Good Is Rooted In Fitrah
- Some moral truths are innate in human fitrah and already recognized by people.
- Honesty, against stealing, and not hurting others are examples of pre-existing ma'roof in every human.
Listening Reveals Knowledge Gaps
- Nouman describes listening to people to assess what they know and where awareness is lacking.
- He uses this to justify teaching rather than blaming those who simply don't understand yet.