Al-Mahdi Ibn Tumart

Tumart's shrine in Maghreb.

Al-Mahdi Ibn Tumart lived in Maghreb [Maroc] about one thousand years ago.

"Let there arise out of you a band of people inviting to all that is good, enjoining what is right, and forbidding what is wrong. They are the ones to attain felicity.” "Be not like those who are divided amongst themselves and fall into disputations after receiving clear signs. For them is a dreadful penalty."

1. Making the offending act clearly known.
2. Warning against committing the act with kind words.
3. The open criticism and revilement of one who persists in a forbidden act.
4. Publicly preventing the commission of the offending act by physical means (such as breaking jugs of wine, spilling wine into the street, ripping silk clothes off the backs of men who wear them, etc).
5. Preventing commission of the act by blows or combat.