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6011 "Fraud" must here be taken in a widely general sense. It covers giving short measure or short weight, but it covers
much more than that. The next two verses make it clear that it is the spirit of injustice that is condemned, giving too
little and asking too much. This may be shown in commercial dealings, where a man exacts a higher standard in his
own favour than he is willing to concede as against him. In domestic or social matters an individual or group may ask
for honour, or respect, or services which he or they are not willing to give on their side in similar circumstances. It is
worse than one-sided selfishness: for it is double injustice. But it is worst of all in religion or spiritual life: with what face
can a man ask for Mercy or Love from Allah when he is unwilling to give it to his fellow-men? In one aspect this is a
statement of the Golden Rule. 'Do as you would be done by'. But it is more completely expressed. You must give in
full what it due from you, whether you expect or wish to receive full consideration from the other side or not. (83.1)
6012 Legal and social sanctions against Fraud depend for their efficacy on whether there is a chance of being found out.
Moral and religious sanctions are of a different kind. 'Do you wish to degrade your own nature?' 'Do you not consider
that there is a Day of Account before a Judge Who knows all, and Who safeguards all interests, for He is the Lord and
Cherisher of the Worlds? Whether other people know anything about your wrong or not, you are guilty before Allah'.
(83.4)
12:59 - And when he had furnished them forth with provisions (suitable) for them he said: "Bring
unto me a brother ye have of the same father as yourselves (but a different mother): see ye
not that I pay out full measure and that I do provide the best hospitality? 1720
12:60 - "Now if ye bring him not to me ye shall have no measure (of corn) from me nor shall be ye
(even) come near me."
12:61 - They said: "We shall certainly seek to get our wish about him from his father: indeed we
shall do it." 1721
12:62 - And (Joseph) told his servants to put their stock in trade (with which they had bartered)
into their saddlebags so they should know it only when they returned to their people in order
that they might come back. 17221723
12:63 - Now when they returned to their father they said: "O our father! no more measure of grain
shall we get (unless we take our brother): so send our brother with us that we may get our
measure; and we will indeed take every care of him." 1724
40:40 - "He that works evil will not be requited but by the like thereof: and he that works a righteous
deed whether man or woman and is a believer such will enter the Garden (of Bliss): therein
will they have abundance without measure. 4413
4413 Cf. ii. 212. This sustenance will not only last. It will be a most liberal reward, far above any merits of the recipient.
(40.40)
31:20 - Do ye not see that Allah has subjected to your (use) all things in the heavens and on earth
and has made His bounties flow to you in exceeding measure (both) seen and unseen? Yet
there are among men those who dispute about Allah without knowledge and without guidance
and without a Book to enlighten them! 360536063607
3606 Allah's grace and bounties work for us at all times. Sometimes we see them, and sometimes we do not. In things
which we can apprehend with our senses, we can see Allah's grace, but even in them, sometimes it works beyond the
sphere of our knowledge. In the inner or spiritual world, sometimes, when our vision is clear, we can see it working,
and often we are not conscious of it. But it works all the same. (31.20)
26:181 - "Give just measure and cause no loss (to others by fraud). 3216
3216 They were a commercial people, but they were given to fraud, injustice, and wrongful mischief (by intermeddling with
others). They are asked to fear Allah and follow His ways: it is He Who also created their predecessors among
mankind, who never prospered by fraud and violent wrong-doing, but only justice and fair dealing. (26.181)
70:4The angels and the Spirit ascend unto Him in a Day the measure whereof is (as) fifty thousand
years: 56775678
5677 Ruh: "The Spirit". Cf. lxxviii. 38, "the Spirit and the angels"; and xcvii. 4, "the angels and the Spirit". In xvi. 2, we have
translated Ruh by "inspiration". Some Commentators understand the angel Gabriel by "the Spirit". But I think a more
general meaning is possible, and fits the context better. (70.4)
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