حقيقة أصل "الأمر بالمعروف و النهي عن المنكر" عند المعتزلة

Abstract EN

Through this research paper, I wanted to address a very important topic in theology, which is promoting of virtue and preventing of vice, which the Mu`tazilah took as its fifth principle of its well-known principles, and which no debater can be Mu`tazilite except through his belief in it - as he affirms on that "Al-Khayyat", in his book Al-Intisar - so I tried to define the concept of promoting of virtue and preventing of vice, linguistically and idiomatically, especially from the perspective of the Mu'tazilites, without neglecting his deduction from the point of view of the Mu'tazilites, and the opinion of the rest of the sects from that position.

Then I addressed on the sections of the promotion of virtue - as the Mu'tazilites see it - and the mechanisms of applying this principle from the Mu'tazila point of view, and the numerous and great differences between the Mu'tazilites and other sects, and the consequent intellectual and even practical conflicts, widening the gap between Islamic groups, and even politicians and religious scholars, and this is what made a lot of Historians of Islamic philosophy believe that if the origin of "the status between the two statuses" - as it is said - was a reason for the emergence of the Mu'tazilites, then the origin of "promoting of virtue and preventing of vice" was among the reasons that multiplied their opponents and precipitated their decline.