Islam Guidance

verse79

(79) كَانُواْ لاَ يَتَنَاهَوْنَ عَن مُّنكَرٍ فَعَلُوهُ لَبِئْسَ مَا كَانُواْ يَفْعَلُونَ

79. " They used not to restrain each other from any dishonour they committed. Certainly evil was that which they were doing! "

Commentary :
The curses of David (a.s.) and Jesus (a.s.) unto the Children of Israel was for the reason that they disobeyed and transgressed. It was also because :
" They used not to restrain each other from any dishonour they committed. Certainly evil was that which they were doing! "
It is narrated from Imam Sadiq (a.s.) who said: " They (the good people of the Children of Israel) did not take part in the (sinful) activities and meetings, but when they saw the (the sinners) they met them with  smiled to their faces, and association."(1)
So, the person who is careless toward corruption is cursed by the prophets.
The deed of ' forbidding from doing evil ' is not allocated to the religion of Islam, but it had existed in all divine religions.
In the community of the Israelites, mischief had commonly been committed. Then, they were cursed by Allah (s.w.t.) and the messenger of Allah.

(1) At-Tafsir-ul-Burhan, vol. 1, p. 492

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