Chapter 24 Chastisement for one who enjoins good and forbids evil but acts otherwise Allah, the Exalted, says: Enjoin you Al-Birr (piety and righteousness and every act of obedience to Allah) on the people and you forget (to practise it) yourselves, while you recite the Scripture [the Taurat (Torah)]! Have you then no sense?. (2:44) O you who believe! Why do you say that which you do not do? Most hateful it is with Allah that you say that which you do not do. (61:2,3) (Shu`aib said:) I wish not, in contradiction to you, to do that which I forbid you. (11:88) 198. Usamah bin Zaid (May Allah bepleased with them) reported: Messenger of Allah (sallallaahu ’alayhi wa sallam) said, A man will be brought on the Day of Resurrection and will be cast into Hell, and his intestines will pour forth and he will go round them as a donkey goes round a millstone. The inmates of Hell will gather round him and say: `What has happened to you, O so-and-so? Were you not enjoining us to do good and forbidding us to do evil? He will reply: `I was enjoining you to do good, but was not doing it myself; and I was forbidding you to do evil, but was doing it myself. [Al-Bukhari and Muslim]. Commentary: This Hadith serves a stern warning for such `Ulama, preachers and reformers of the Ummah whose own conduct is contrary to the sermons they give from the pulpit.
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