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احبك ىارب
Painfully Tormented
The Messenger of Allah (sal Allahu alaihi wa sallam) said: “There are three to whom Allah will not speak on the Day of Resurrection, and He will not look at them; a man who swears an oath about his goods for sale, saying that he has been offered more for them than he is being offered, and he is lying; a man who swears a false oath after Asr in order to take a Muslim’s wealth wrongfully; and a man who withholds his surplus water. Allah will say on the Day of Resurrection, ‘Today I will deprive you of My bounty, just as you deprived others of the bounty of things that you did not make.’” [Saheeh Bukhaari]
The first two cases of people punished by Allah are those involved in deception in order to sell their ware. The first type says that he was offered more than he was in reality, so he can raise the price of the article he is selling. The second type of man sees the day coming to an end (it being Asr time) and wishes to make a sale before returning home, and so lies about his ware to sell it any way he can.
This hadith doesn’t just apply to petty shopkeepers and vendors but also high profile businesses and advertising agencies. The amount of lying in advertising is scary!
Each person should stop in their tracks and think about the things they may have sold at some point in their lives and how they sold them.
The third person deserving Allah’s wrath is he who refuses to allow others to benefit from water that is excess to his needs. Such misers don’t warrant anything but miserly treatment themselves.
May Allah (subhana wa ta’ala) help us to identify our sins, mend our ways, and save us from His punishment. Ameen.
The Messenger of Allah (sal Allahu alaihi wa sallam) said: “There are three to whom Allah will not speak on the Day of Resurrection, and He will not look at them; a man who swears an oath about his goods for sale, saying that he has been offered more for them than he is being offered, and he is lying; a man who swears a false oath after Asr in order to take a Muslim’s wealth wrongfully; and a man who withholds his surplus water. Allah will say on the Day of Resurrection, ‘Today I will deprive you of My bounty, just as you deprived others of the bounty of things that you did not make.’” [Saheeh Bukhaari]
The first two cases of people punished by Allah are those involved in deception in order to sell their ware. The first type says that he was offered more than he was in reality, so he can raise the price of the article he is selling. The second type of man sees the day coming to an end (it being Asr time) and wishes to make a sale before returning home, and so lies about his ware to sell it any way he can.
This hadith doesn’t just apply to petty shopkeepers and vendors but also high profile businesses and advertising agencies. The amount of lying in advertising is scary!
Each person should stop in their tracks and think about the things they may have sold at some point in their lives and how they sold them.
The third person deserving Allah’s wrath is he who refuses to allow others to benefit from water that is excess to his needs. Such misers don’t warrant anything but miserly treatment themselves.
May Allah (subhana wa ta’ala) help us to identify our sins, mend our ways, and save us from His punishment. Ameen.