Enjoininy Good and Forbidding Evil under Review

The present article is concerned with some of the questions relating to the divine obligation of enjoining good and forbidding evil in order to explain and revise this issue and show whether or not the term “enjoining good and forbidding evil” includes such things like guiding the ignorant, taking preventive actions in cultural and non-cultural affairs, judgement, exercising divine punishments and jihad (holy war).The article also investigates how the duty will be in case of necessity or unlawfulness, about which faqihs have different opinions, and discusses the duty of the faithful in this regard in the period when they have no political power in contrast with their duty in the time when the affairs is run by an Islamic government, by taking into consideration the different stages and levels of this divine duty.