Abstract
Enjoining the good and forbidding the evil is the most important command of God in the field of public responsibility among Muslims, and since the beginning of Islam, these two basic duties have played a significant role in the dynamism and movement of the Islamic society towards ideals.
One of the requirements of research in the field of enjoining the good and forbidding the evil is to study these two duties with other topics such as calling for good, supervision, criticizing, renouncing the ignorant, and so on. Regarding the first three titles, considerable research has been done, but less attention has been paid to the relationship between turning away from the ignorant and enjoining the good and forbidding the evil.
This article focuses on verse 199 of Surah A'raf, and based on the views of commentators and jurists, the descriptive-analytical method of examining the inclusion or non-inclusion of the concept of enjoining the good and forbidding the evil in relation to the Qur'anic interpretation of "avoiding the ignorant" And considering the existence of two different approaches, the findings of the article indicate two different results:
If in the taste of the Shari'ah, the criterion in enjoining the good and forbidding the evil is addressed in the form of prohibition, the renunciation of the ignorant will not be as enjoining the good and forbidding the evil; But if we consider the legislation of these two duties as a criterion, considering that the criterion of the Shari'ah is the requirement of enjoining the good and forbidding the evil to create the good and the non-fulfillment of the bad, this criterion is also present in the ignorant and this category is a subset of two duties.