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Ameer al-Momineen (a.s) said: “Whoever faces the Qibla, and eats what is slaughtered according to our directions, and believes in our Prophets, and witnesses to what we witness to, and enters into our religion will be treated according to the Quranic decrees and Islamic ordinances. No one is superior to others except through piety. Beware that the pious ones have the best divine reward and the best ending.” God the Almighty granted blessings to the nation of Muhammad and honored them by establishing them as the ones who enjoin the right and forbid the wrong, and described their attributes in His Book and sent them blessings. He then said: “Ye are the best of people, evolved for mankind, enjoining the right, forbidding what is wrong, and believing in God.” [The Holy Quran: Al-i-Imran 3:110] And God bound together enjoining the right and forbidding the wrong with belief. “And observe the limits set by God; -(These do rejoice). So proclaim the glad tidings to the Believers.” [The Holy Quran: Tauba 9:112] And God cursed and admonished those who abandon enjoining the right and forbidding the wrong, and those who did not face and rise against oppression. God promised them that they would be severely punished: “Curses were pronounced on those among the Children of Israel who rejected Faith, by the tongue of David, and of Jesus the son of Mary; because they disobeyed and persisted in Excesses. Nor did they (usually) forbid one another the iniquities which they committed: evil indeed were the deeds which they did. [The Holy Quran: Maida 5:81-82] In the same chapter God the Almighty said: “Many of them dost thou see, racing each other in sin and rancor, and their eating of things forbidden. Evil indeed are the things that they do. Why do not the Rabbis and the doctors of law forbid them from their (habit of) uttering sinful words and eating things forbidden? Evil indeed are their works. [The Holy Quran: Maida 5:61-2] God the Almighty has considered those who commit sins and those who abandon forbidding the same sins to be equal in the degree of wickedness of their act, and the severity of their promised punishment. He then enjoins us to do good deeds and forbids doing wrongful acts and promises a good reward for this, and warns us of a severely painful punishment. God the Almighty has said: “Let there arise out of you a band of people inviting to all that is good, enjoining what is right, and forbidding what is wrong: they are the ones to attain felicity.” [The Holy Quran: Al-i- Imran 3:104] He also said:“When some of them said: “Why do ye preach to a people whom God will destroy or visit with a terrible punishment?” Said the preacher: “To discharge our duty to your Lord, and perchance they may fear Him.” When they disregarded the warnings that had been given them, we rescued those who forbade evil, but We visited the wrong-doers with a grievous punishment, because they were given to transgression.” [The Holy Quran: Araf 7:164-165]
عن أمير المؤمنين (عليه السلام) قال
من استقبل قبلتنا، وأكل ذبيحتنا، وآمن بنبينا، وشهد شهادتنا، ودخل في ديننا، أجرينا عليه حكم القرآن وحدود الإسلام، ليس لأحد على أحد فضل إلا بالتقوى، ألا وإن للمتقين عند الله أفضل الثواب وأحسن الجزاء والمآب