Library Ethics Greater Sins Chapter 47 Intrigue,Deception & Breaking Covenants Tricking the People
Tricking the People
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Tricking the People
Cheating, cunning, fraud and deception are different types of qualities common in those people who are not worried about the hereafter. All of them are HarÄm and Greater Sins. The more harmful they are, the more is the severity of these crimes and the more severe the punishment. The Almighty Allah (S.w.T.) says in Surah FÄt’ir,
“and the evil plans shall not beset any save the authors of it.”
(Surah FÄt’ir 35: 43)
Whenever a person plans evil for other, evil befalls him and he himself will face problems if he desires problems for others. Every kind of trickery and cheating causes disgrace to the cheater and trickster. The cheater has to suffer in the lowermost level of Hell due to this crime and the one whom he cheated receives great rewards for having undergone hardships and is granted a high position in this world and the hereafter. Thus we usually see that the cheat is disgraced in the world and he himself suffers the damage caused by this deed. According to Tafsīrul Mizan the following saying was common among the Arabs: One who digs a hole for his brother; Allah (S.w.T.) throws him headlong into it. A similar proverb is present in Persian also: Do not do evil to anyone the same evil will turn towards you.
