The Holy Quran 8:25 — Surah Al-Anfal

Arabic text

وَٱتَّقُوا۟ فِتْنَةً لَّا تُصِيبَنَّ ٱلَّذِينَ ظَلَمُوا۟ مِنكُمْ خَآصَّةً ۖ وَٱعْلَمُوٓا۟ أَنَّ ٱللَّهَ شَدِيدُ ٱلْعِقَابِ

Translation

Beware of a trial (punishment) that will affect not only the oppressive (wrongdoing) ones from you (but will affect the righteous as well because they did not make an effort to stop the others from sin despite having the ability to do so)! Know that surely Allaah is severe in punishment.

Tafsir (excerpt) — Tafsir Usmani

The importance of admonishing: that is, suppose that most members of a people have adopted the way of injustice and disobedience, and some who kept apart from it showed compromise: they neither admonished nor expressed disapproval. Then this is a fitnah (trial and calamity) whose grip will take in all — both those wrongdoers and these silent compromisers.

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