In Islam, al-amru bi al-ma’rūf wa al-nahyu ‘an al-munkar is an important teaching, which has strong relation with not only Allah but also society. Almost all of Muslims in the world give their best effort to perform this command. It is popular that both al-amru bi al-ma’rūf and al-nahyu ‘an al-munkar is a pair of action that must not be separated in order to balance the emancipatory and liberal spirit. Practicing only part of them or misunderstanding the included spirit in al-amru bi al-ma’rūf wa al-nahyu ‘an al-munkar will bring more problems among society.
These days, some groups of Muslims unfortunately misunderstand al-amru bi al-ma’rūf wa al-nahyu ‘an al-munkar as a teaching, which allowed violence to force others to follow Islam and step on the right path. They ignore some ethics and merely believe that they have done Allāh’s command toward them to maintain Islamic teachings. This misunderstanding someway comes from the partial or wrong understanding of some verses in al-Qur’ān related to al-amru bi al-ma’rūf wa al-nahyu ‘an al-munkar . Moreover, this fact really happens in our country, Indonesia. Therefore, the researcher sees the needs to discuss more about the concept of al-amru bi al-ma’rūf wa al-nahyu ‘an al-munkar in al-Qur’ān as explained by one of Indonesian commentator, who is Hasbi ash-Shiddieqy in tafsīr al-nūr.
This research aims to find the concept of al-amru bi al-ma’rūf wa al-nahyu ‘an al-munkar according to Muhammad Hasbi Ash-Shiddieqy in tafsīr al-nūr and the background of socio-historical the concept of his notion This research is a descriptive-analytic research that uses socio-historical approach and deductive analysis. It means that the researcher try to elaborate Hasbi’s interpretation toward verses of al-amru bi al-ma’rūf wa al-nahyu ‘an al-munkar and explain his theory of al-amru bi al-ma’rūf wa al-nahyu ‘an al-munkar based on his interpretation.
The result of this research found that al-amru bi al-ma’rūf wa al-nahyu ‘an al-munkar according to Hasbi is ordering good things and prohibit bad things in the religion, syari’a and reason perception. To perform it, Hasbi requires the role of an institution called ĥisbah, which formulates all things related to al-amru bi al-ma’rūf wa al-nahyu ‘an al-munkar. Moreover, in performing al-amru bi al-ma’rūf wa al-nahyu ‘an al-munkar, one must pay attention to the ethics and not by any kind of compulsion and violence.