Abdul Muqit Chowdhury :
Islam enjoins lawful earning and honest livelihood. Lawful earning is a must and a pre-condition to acceptance of any ritual or prayer to Allah. Virtue of fasting also depends on lawful earning and livelihood. Because, unlawful
income is immoral and Islam does not approve any immoral, unethical activity for earning.
The person who deprives others from dues or exploits them, earns unlawfully. His livelihood is unlawful. A dishonest person, who earns illegally can not be virtuous as his activity is anti-social. A Rozadar businessman who deals in fraud, cannot please Allah.
Hoarding is unlawful. It is completely against Islamic code and laws. It causes speedy rise of price of essential commodities and creates misery and suffering of low-income group, The Holy Hadith forbids this inhuman activity. The merchants, who go on earning unlawful profit through hoarding and creating crisis in the market and also observe fasting, should abstain from this anti-social activity.
Dishonesty in weighing and selling is also against Islamic business system and norms. This is a way of cheating the buyers and earning through this is also unlawful. Food from such dishonest means makes the fasting a vain. So, businessmen should abstain from such anti-social activities.
The Holy Quran warns against the woeful consequences of such businessmen : “Woe to those that deal in fraud, – those who, when they have to receive by measure from men, exact full measure, but when they have to give by measure or weight to men, give less than due.” (Sura Mutaffifin 83 : 1-3)
Allama Yusuf Ali in the ‘Holy Quran : Translation and Commentary’ comments : “You must give in full what is due from you, whether you expect or wish to receive full consideration from the other side or not.”
“In order that ye may not transgress (due) balance. So establish weight with justice and fall not short in the balance.” (Sura Ar-Rahman 55:8-9)
Allama Yusuf Ali comments : “To be taken both literally and figuratively. A man should be honest and straight in every daily matter, such as weighing out things which he is selling : and he should be straight, just and honest, in all the highest dealings, not only with other people, but with himself and in his obedience to God’s Law…..”
Undue profit by such means is totally forbidden. We should think of our woeful consequences. Fasting or any ritual should be observed by taking food from lawful earning. Otherwise, prayers and rituals – either it be Salat, Siam, Hajj or Zakat – may be in vain.
Islam enjoins lawful earning and honest livelihood. Lawful earning is a must and a pre-condition to acceptance of any ritual or prayer to Allah. Virtue of fasting also depends on lawful earning and livelihood. Because, unlawful
income is immoral and Islam does not approve any immoral, unethical activity for earning.
The person who deprives others from dues or exploits them, earns unlawfully. His livelihood is unlawful. A dishonest person, who earns illegally can not be virtuous as his activity is anti-social. A Rozadar businessman who deals in fraud, cannot please Allah.
Hoarding is unlawful. It is completely against Islamic code and laws. It causes speedy rise of price of essential commodities and creates misery and suffering of low-income group, The Holy Hadith forbids this inhuman activity. The merchants, who go on earning unlawful profit through hoarding and creating crisis in the market and also observe fasting, should abstain from this anti-social activity.
Dishonesty in weighing and selling is also against Islamic business system and norms. This is a way of cheating the buyers and earning through this is also unlawful. Food from such dishonest means makes the fasting a vain. So, businessmen should abstain from such anti-social activities.
The Holy Quran warns against the woeful consequences of such businessmen : “Woe to those that deal in fraud, – those who, when they have to receive by measure from men, exact full measure, but when they have to give by measure or weight to men, give less than due.” (Sura Mutaffifin 83 : 1-3)
Allama Yusuf Ali in the ‘Holy Quran : Translation and Commentary’ comments : “You must give in full what is due from you, whether you expect or wish to receive full consideration from the other side or not.”
“In order that ye may not transgress (due) balance. So establish weight with justice and fall not short in the balance.” (Sura Ar-Rahman 55:8-9)
Allama Yusuf Ali comments : “To be taken both literally and figuratively. A man should be honest and straight in every daily matter, such as weighing out things which he is selling : and he should be straight, just and honest, in all the highest dealings, not only with other people, but with himself and in his obedience to God’s Law…..”
Undue profit by such means is totally forbidden. We should think of our woeful consequences. Fasting or any ritual should be observed by taking food from lawful earning. Otherwise, prayers and rituals – either it be Salat, Siam, Hajj or Zakat – may be in vain.
