This is also true with respect to the nation’s economy: When people start to unlawfully taking the rights and money of the others, ignoring what Allah has prohibited, or if the merchants start to monopolize goods, especially the vital materials?In such a case, we have to execute this religious duty that calls for standing against the monopolizers and the cheaters or those who make mischief on earth. This is also what Imam Ali said in his last will in which he told his sons Imams Hassan and Hussein, as well as all those to whom his message was conveyed: “Be adversaries to the wrongdoer and supporters of the wronged.

Prophet Muhammad says: You should enjoin good and forbid the bad, or Allah will let the bad among you rule over the good. Then when the good among you would supplicate they will not be answered. If we ignore this duty, the bad among us who support arrogance, wrongdoing, and mischief will increase. This religious duty also applies at the political levels, whether against an arrogant leader, or those who support the arrogant and the occupier.

And this is what the Muslim nation is living in several places, because it no longer performs the duty of enjoining the good and forbidding the bad, with people saying I have nothing to do with the affairs of others, or with the decisions of the rulers. Being neutral or indifferent is what makes the wrongdoers and tyrants take control of the society.

-Ayatullah Fadlallah

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