O Son !

multiplying it ten-fold.
120– O son! Allâhu ta’âlâ threatens people who give short and
fraudulent measure and weight, in Sûra Mutaffifîn, which
purports: “Vehement torment awaits people who measure
deficiently as they sell.”
121– Dread rights of slaves, (i.e. others’ rights!) If you have
debt, try to pay it. The Habîbullah (the Beloved One of Allah)
declined to join a namâz of janâza to be performed for a person
who had owed a penny to someone. One cannot enter Paradise
unless that debt is paid. [A man has to pay his wife’s mahr-imu’ajjal
immediately and her mahr-i-muejjel in case of a divorce.
(Please see the twelfth chapter of the fifth fascicle, and the
fifteenth chapter of the sixth fascicle, of Endless Bliss!) A husband
should put aside his debt called mahr-i-muejjel to his wife and add
into his will that it should be paid to his wife after his debt. If he
did not state it in his will, after his death, before the legacy is
divided and distributed, the entire mahr will have to be subtracted
from the legacy and paid to the wife immediately. If a man
divorces his wife without paying his wife’s mahr to her, he will be
imprisoned in the world and tormented in the Hereafter. The
husband will not add his debt of mahr to his (calculations of) nisâb
for zakât, for fitra or for qurbân. The wife will add it to her
calculations of nisâb. However, in case she is paid a nisâb amount
of it, she will have to pay that year’s zakât at the end of the first
year if she still has that amount. Another sort of human right is to
teach your kinsfolk and people under your command the religios
knowledge that they need.] A hadîth-i-sherîf reads: “If a person in
debt is determined to pay his debt, Allâhu ta’âlâ’s help will be with
him.”
[The book entitled Hadîqa states as follows as it deals with
disasters which a person incurs with his feet: “Animals’ rights as
well as disbelievers’ rights are among the reasons for torment in
the Hereafter. If one does not somehow get oneself forgiven for
possible impingements on others’ rights as parties are still alive, it
will be more difficult to get oneself absolved in the Hereafter,
especially if the wronged party is a disbeliever. Animals’ rights will
be even more difficult to get oneself delivered from.” For that
matter, Muslims in the Dâr-ul-harb should do their best to avoid
being involved in a possible transgression against disbelievers’
property, lives or chastity. Their laws must be obeyed lest a fitna
or fasâd should arise.]
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