Corruption spreads beyond the guilty

الفتنة تعم المذنب وغيره

Arjun holds that when corruption spreads, God's punishment can reach people who did not commit the wrong. Distinction is made at the gathering according to intention, and those who accept evil share in its guilt; those who forbid wrong are saved 1.

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'Arjun holds that God's punishment of the corrupt may engulf the innocent when corruption spreads — men being distinguished on Resurrection Day by their intentions 2. He who accepts evil shares its doing; abandoning the forbidding of wrong makes the silent partners in the curse 3 — the book qualifying that salvation belongs to those who forbid the evil 4.

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The seven ahruf· Hadith· Shama'il Muhammadiyya· The Prophetic sira· The Prophetic Sunna· Command, prohibition and capacity· The Sunna as explanation of the Qur'an· Bid'a (religious innovation)

Sources

  1. Sunan Allah in Society through the Qur'an — Muhammad al-Sadiq Arjun , p. 50-51
  2. Sunan Allah in Society through the Qur'an — Muhammad al-Sadiq Arjun , p. 50
  3. Sunan Allah in Society through the Qur'an — Muhammad al-Sadiq Arjun , p. 51
  4. Sunan Allah in Society through the Qur'an — Muhammad al-Sadiq Arjun
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islam.museum contributors. “Corruption spreads beyond the guilty”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/concept/fitna-spreads-to-all/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-22.

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