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Does enjoining good and forbidding evil fall under the perpetual charity mentioned in the Hadith: "When a person dies, his deeds are cut off except for three: a perpetual charity, or knowledge from which benefit is gained, or a righteous child who supplicates for him," so that it includes advising others to do good deeds such as performing night prayers, reciting the Qur'an, and disseminating fatwas and admonitions, and consequently, continuous reward accrues to the one who offered the advice?

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Enjoining good and forbidding evil are among the methods of calling to Allah. It is considered knowledge from which a person benefits after their death, in accordance with the Prophet’s (peace and blessings be upon him) saying: "When a person dies, all their deeds cease except for three: a continuous charity, knowledge from which others benefit, or a righteous child who supplicates for them." Beneficial knowledge includes everything a person authored or published from knowledge, or wrote, or endowed books, or every good deed a Muslim caused from which others benefited, based on Allah’s Almighty saying: "Indeed, We revive the dead and We record what they have put forth and what they left behind." The traces (or 'atharuhum') include their direct actions and the آثار (athār) they left behind, such as one who initiates a good practice or a bad practice. This demonstrates the immense stature of calling to Allah and the baseness of one who calls to evil.

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