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Chapter Three
An Exposition on Justice and Avoidance of Injustice in Dealing
First Part:
General harm. Its various Forms:
The First: The monopoly, the seller of foodstuffs withhold stocks of food in
anticipation of raising the price, this is to the general harm and the one who
commits it is blameworthy according to the Shariah (Islamic Law).
Ali - may Allah be pleased with him - said: “Whoever monopolizes food for forty
days, his heart is hardened.” And he also said: “The one who monopolizes food
will be burnt in the Fire.‟
The Second: The one who circulates counterfeit money is unjust because he
harms thereby the dealer who buys from him without knowing, and if he knows
he will circulate it to the others, and thus the third and fourth and it will pass from
An Exposition on Justice and Avoidance of Injustice in Dealing
First Part:
General harm. Its various Forms:
The First: The monopoly, the seller of foodstuffs withhold stocks of food in
anticipation of raising the price, this is to the general harm and the one who
commits it is blameworthy according to the Shariah (Islamic Law).
Ali - may Allah be pleased with him - said: “Whoever monopolizes food for forty
days, his heart is hardened.” And he also said: “The one who monopolizes food
will be burnt in the Fire.‟
The Second: The one who circulates counterfeit money is unjust because he
harms thereby the dealer who buys from him without knowing, and if he knows
he will circulate it to the others, and thus the third and fourth and it will pass from