Sunday 19 March 2017

MEASURING SHORT WHEN SELLING SOMETHING - Part 10

Once Rasool Allah (the Holy Prophet) ﷺ went to the Bazaar. He saw a person selling grains. When Rasool Allah SAW touched the grain he saw that the grain on the top was of high quality but the grain underneath it had become rotten because it had become wet during raining. The person who just looked at the grain would only see that it was all of high quality. Rasool Allah SAW asked the seller, "Why haven't you put the rotten grain at the top so that the buyer would know that some of the grain is rotten? Then he would have the choice whether to buy it or not to buy it." The seller said, "O' Rasool Allah SAW! Some of my grain had become rotten during rain, that is why I have put it underneath the good grain." Rasool Allah SAW told him not to do that and to put the rotten grain on top as well.

Then Rasool Allah SAW, ""من غش فلیس منا". (The person who deceives others is not one of us.) (Sahih Muslim)

Adapted from the talk "Milawat aur Naap Taul mein Kami", by Mufti Muhammad Taqi Usmani DB

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