Plan to launch a doctoral program in Encouraging Good and Forbidding Evil
The head of the Center for Encouraging Good and Forbidding Evil's Vision Revival announced the plan to launch a doctoral program in Encouraging Good and Forbidding Evil.
Regarding the plan to launch a doctoral program in Enjoining Good and Forbidding Evil, Mehran Samadi said: "A master's and doctoral degree program is planned to be launched under the title of Enjoining Good and Forbidding Evil, and course content will be produced in this field."
A virtual webinar was held this week under the title of explaining the new approaches of the Command for Enjoining Virtue and Forbidding Vice by the Islamic Azad University of Khorasan Razavi. In the session, Mehran Samadi stated: "Expert and interested faculty members can cooperate with the Command for Enjoining Virtue and Forbidding Vice in the field of producing content for educational books in this field. When the discussion of the two obligations of enjoining Virtue and forbidding vice is raised, minds immediately turn to the category of hijab and chastity, while the scope of these two obligations is much broader than hijab and chastity."
Regarding the possession of knowledge by people who want to enjoin good and forbid evil, he added: "Faculty members have knowledge in their specialized fields, and anyone who wants to enjoin good and forbid evil must have knowledge. For example, a PhD in economics can enter the fields of hoarding, overpricing, and banking, and a PhD in environmental science can enter the fields of deforestation, mountaineering, mining, urban development, or urban sewage, and a PhD in civil engineering can enjoin good or forbid evil in the fields of construction, negligence, and abuses that can lead to governance."
The philosophy behind the formation of these demand groups by the academic staff of Islamic Azad University is to form demand groups and provide guidance to the officials. That is, they come and demand from the officials and point out their negligence, omissions, and shortcomings. In the first step, a memorandum of understanding should be signed between Islamic Azad University and the Headquarters for Encouraging Righteousness and Forbidding Evil of Khorasan Razavi, whose job it is to support and assist the headquarters and headquarters in the areas of knowledge, insight, legal assistance, and judicial assistance.
A video has also been posted on social media showing the violent arrest of a woman who opposed the mandatory hijab by two female Ershad patrol officers, which has had a very wide impact on social media. In the video, it is clear that due to the woman's resistance, her clothes come undone, and then one of the officers throws a blanket-like cloth around the woman and forcibly drags her into a van. The presence of this sheet in the Ershad patrol vehicle and the officers' use of it has provoked many reactions, with social media users writing: "This is a practical unit of the same plan to launch a doctoral program in Enjoining Good and Forbidding Evil, but what reason or function could the presence of this large blanket-like sheet in the Ershad patrol vehicle have?!"
The head of the Encouraging Good and Forbidding Evil Center said: "After signing the memorandum of understanding, the colleagues will participate in the Encouraging Good and Forbidding Evil courses so that they can become fully knowledgeable in terms of science, knowledge, and understanding and become familiar with the etiquette, levels, stages, and methods of performing the two duties, because sometimes people who do not have expertise and knowledge in these areas enter with the intention of encouraging good, but in practice commit evil. The next task is to collect doubts because students will definitely have doubts and faculty members will also have questions. We would like these questions to be collected so that we can present them to Mr. Golpayegani, Secretary and Deputy Head of the National Encouraging Good and Forbidding Evil Center, and he will answer these doubts."
