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The return of sold goods, one should accept with ease any goods you have sold
to anyone if that person would be harmed in the purchase of them. As one
should not accept to be a cause to harm another person. The Prophet, praise
and peace be upon him, said: “Whoever easily accepts the return of a deal from
a regretful person, Allah, the Almighty will ease for him his difficulty on the Day of
Judgment.”
In dealing with poor people one must have mercy and kindness and afford them
their self-respect. The righteous people before us used to have two books for
debts, one was coded so that no one would know the identities, this was the
book for the poor and needy people, the poor people used to see the food and
fruit and desire to have it, so they would go and say we need five pounds weight,
for example, of this or that, and I have no money to pay you. They used to say to
them, take what you want and pay when you are able. This gives the poor man
the choice of paying if he is able or of being pardoned from payment. This was
the manner of trading of the early Muslims. The one who still acts in this way is
reviving the ordinance of the righteous. However, trading is a test for men, with it
you can examine a man‟s religion and his piety and see how righteous he is. This
to anyone if that person would be harmed in the purchase of them. As one
should not accept to be a cause to harm another person. The Prophet, praise
and peace be upon him, said: “Whoever easily accepts the return of a deal from
a regretful person, Allah, the Almighty will ease for him his difficulty on the Day of
Judgment.”
In dealing with poor people one must have mercy and kindness and afford them
their self-respect. The righteous people before us used to have two books for
debts, one was coded so that no one would know the identities, this was the
book for the poor and needy people, the poor people used to see the food and
fruit and desire to have it, so they would go and say we need five pounds weight,
for example, of this or that, and I have no money to pay you. They used to say to
them, take what you want and pay when you are able. This gives the poor man
the choice of paying if he is able or of being pardoned from payment. This was
the manner of trading of the early Muslims. The one who still acts in this way is
reviving the ordinance of the righteous. However, trading is a test for men, with it
you can examine a man‟s religion and his piety and see how righteous he is. This