Tafsir Ibn Abbas: Aal-i-Imraan, Ayah 104
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Let there be one community of you calling to good to Islam and enjoining decency and forbidding indecency; those that call bid and forbid are the successful the victorious the particle min ‘of’ in minkum ‘of you’ is partitive since what is mentioned is a collective obligation fard kifāya and is not incumbent upon every individual of the community for not every person such as the ignorant is up to it. However it is also said that this particle is extra and what is meant is ‘so that you are a community calling to good and so on’.
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Ibn Abbas Commentary
Allah then commanded goodness and reconciliation, saying: (And there may spring from you) there still exists among you (a nation) a group (who invite to goodness) who invite to reconciliation and excellence, (and enjoin right conduct) they enjoin Allah's divine Oneness and the following of Muhammad (pbuh) (and forbid indecency) they forbid disbelief, idolatry and rejection, instead following the Messenger. (Such are they who are successful) who are saved from Allah's wrath and punishment.