“Such people cannot hope to be spared trial and temptation simply because they are good within themselves.”
“When a community does not stand up to wrongdoers, when it does not take any positive steps to punish transgressors, it deserves to share in the punishment of those wrongdoers and transgressors.
It should be said that the worst type of wrongdoing is to abandon Allaah’s law which He has laid down to be implemented in human life. As a system, Islaam has a serious outlook based on mutual help and solidarity within the community.
Islaam does not allow its followers to sit idle when injustice, corruption and wrongdoing continue on the rampage, let alone sees Allaah’s faith abandoned and His Godhead denied in order to be substituted by false claims.
Such people cannot hope to be spared trial and temptation simply because they are good within themselves.”
– Sayyid Qutb [Fee Zhilaal al-Qur’aan [English trans.] (7/111)]