Sajid Ahmed Umar – Ramadan 2019 – Ep. 21

			Bismillah R Rahman r Rahim al hamdu Lillah wa Salatu was Salam ala rasulillah who Allah Allah He
also here in my back, dearest brothers and sisters in Islam Salaam Alaikum alaikum warahmatullahi
wabarakatuh, I welcome you all to Episode 21 of our Ramadan reminders. And today I take you to three
places in the Quran at the same time, because this principle is mentioned in three places in the
book of Allah subhanho wa Taala number one in sort of a rough idea number 85, then surratt hood is
number 85 again, and then in Surat Shu RR is number 183. And in particular, Allah subhanho wa Taala
says, while at
		

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			whom Allah says, and do not deprive people of the deal, do not depart deprive people of the deal.
Now, from the outset,
		

			this ayah is
		

			the lesson of shape, or a celeb to his people, warning them against trickery in trade, cheating
people and
		

			taking money from them, without giving them the deal, giving them what they now own. So you take
more money, and give less, especially when working with the scales, right? A lot of tricks that
people do
		

			with the scales, obviously we live in different times today. But it still happens in some third
world countries, or developing countries, I've actually seen a video of somebody actually secretly
recording
		

			a person selling
		

			using the scale, different fruits, different seeds, and how this person manipulates the scales.
		

			And ends up weighing less but charging more as if more was purchased. Unfortunately, this actually
happens Miller's panaway Tyler protect us and we know brothers and sisters in Islam, Allah subhanho
wa Taala is well aware of everything that we say, and everything that we do. Now the scholars of the
theater say that even though this is the context of the idea, but the idea applies
		

			to everything in life, everything, it applies to everything in life, even when it comes to rights of
other people do not deprive them of the views, right? our wives, they have rights, husbands have
rights, children have rights, employees have rights, right? employers have rights, is rights that
Allah subhanho wa Taala has set upon every role that exists, we need to ensure that we look after
those rights, we do not deprive people of the views, those rights, that Allah subhanho wa Taala has
given to them or rights that have become known because of certain norms in societies, right. So
		

			for example, if we if we take the rights of employers, that we don't cheat our promises to them, the
conditions of the contracts that we've signed on it, some people, they get to work just to place
their fingerprint, so it sort of logs in the attendance and then they leave La quwata illa Allah,
and then they come back and log in the attendance so that, you know, they ensure that they get their
salary, their rights are, you know, are protected, and they haven't really earned the money that
they are receiving. Sometimes it's in the form of cheating. On a CV, we're not giving our employer
his due, right, we've cheated on the CV and handed in qualifications that we don't possess. Allah
		

			subhanho wa Taala protect us. I mean, this is just these examples, right? writes between husbands
and wives, I'm sure those who are married,
		

			have enough examples. To clarify exactly what we mean over here. Same thing applies to employees
that we pay them before their sweat dries that we don't overburden them, that we don't breach the
rules of the contract, that we both agreed to the employer and the employee, when
		

			when the initial hire was done, right, regulations are taken care of, and so on and so forth. You
know, it goes beyond the scope of cheating when sending something using the scale, even as you can
see, and obviously we can leave out modern day transactions in terms of ensuring that we haven't
lied about the
		

			cost price of things, especially when deals are based
		

			built on the buyers knowledge of the cost price of the product, right? If you lie about the cost
price so that you can justify the profit and convince the buyer into purchasing this product from
you, then you have not given the buyer his or her due right. This is a form of cheating. In other
episodes, we've spoken about kickbacks, etc. Right?
		

			Especially when it's in the form of creating an uneven playing field
		

			and
		

			causes harm to our fellow Muslim brothers and sisters who are also involved in you know, in the
competition in putting in their tender to try and get a particular contract, for example. So
brothers and sisters in Islam, three places in the Quran, in the story of shrubbery Salaam, Allah
subhanho wa Taala tells us that the instruction he gave to his people was well at the person NASA
Shere Khan do not deprive people do not deprive people of their views, you know, lots of Anahata
Allah
		

			grant us the understanding, and we all know spanaway to either improve and correct the state of our
Eman and our Islam so that the true fear of Allah subhanho wa Taala enters our hearts and
		

			by that insha Allah we live our lives in a way that is pleasing to Allah subhanho wa Taala and live
our lives accordingly. Even though a police officer or a legal unit or system may not be watching us
we know that above all these systems is an early the
		

			you know Allah subhanho wa Taala the the old knowing Albacete, the old seeing a semi or the old
hearing, a Shaheed the universal witness or repeat the universal observer subhanho wa Taala La ilaha
illAllah of all these systems is Allah subhanho wa Taala the authorities might not see you but Allah
subhanho wa Taala is the ultimate authority and he does not grant us the understanding. I mean,
until next time, Salaam Alaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh