تجارة
Tijāra
Topic
The Quran requires honest weights, written contracts and fair dealing in trade.
What it means
“O you who believe, do not consume one another’s wealth wrongfully, but let there be trade by mutual consent” (4:29). “Woe to the cheaters, who when they take a measure from people take in full, and when they measure for them, give less” (83:1–3). The longest verse of the Quran (2:282) tells believers to write down debts with a date and call witnesses. The Prophet said that “the truthful, trustworthy merchant will be with the prophets and the truthful” (al-Tirmidhi), and he himself was a merchant.