KITABUL MUA’MALAT
(The Book of Affairs)
- Importance of Economic Affairs
- Clean living and lawful earning
- Importance and need of money in certain circumstances
- The honest trades will be with the PROPHETs, the truthful and the martyrs
- Dignity of labor
- Agriculture and fruit-growing
- Legitimate wealth is blessing
- Importance and politeness in monetory dealings
- The curse of ill-Gotten wealth
- Piety demands shunning, also what is doubtful
- Gentleness and forbearance in money matters
- Excellence of giving a loan, and guidance
- Loan is most serious matter
- If their intension to pay back a loan, God will, somehow, have it paid
- Practice of the PROPHET(PBUH)
- Usury
- Miscellaneous
- Buying and Selling
- A fruit-crop should neither be sold bought until it is ready
- Crops of fruit orchards should not be given on contract for a number of years
- An article which is not happiness one’s possession at the time of the deal should not be sold
- If grain etc. Is bought, should not be sold until delivery has been taken of it
- Forbidding buying and selling with a man who is in extreme need
- Warning against concealing the defect of a commodity offered for sale
- Undue advantage should not be taken of the ignorance of the buyer or seller
- Selling by auction
- Hoarding and excessive profit disallowed
- Price-control
- Cancelling a deal
- Cancelling a sale owing to a defecting good
- Cancelling a deal after it had been completed
- Forbidding swearing and other improper things in business
- The trade which is not carried on cleanly is extremely bad
- A kindly Advice Regarding sale of immovable property
- Partnership in business
- Appointing an agent
- Hire and wages
- Letting out of land on rent or division of the crop between the cultivator and land lord
- Accepting remuneration for dam, (blowing) ta’weez etc (charm)
- Borrowing
- Borrowing of a horse by the PROPPHET
- Misappropriation
- Gift
- A present generates love and removes malice from the heart
- The guidance and practice of the PROPHET concerning the return for a gift
- Gratefulness to benefactors
- Articles which should not be refused as a gift
- To claim back a gift Is highly disgraceful
- To whom it is forbidden to accept a gift
- Waqf (Charitable Fund)
- Basic principles
- Will
- A religious obligation
- Claim of the heirs should not be disregarded
- A will cannot be made in respect of an heir
- Punishment of hell for those who are unjust to right-full heirs in their will
- Legal Administration
- Just and unjust rulers and judges
- Honest error of judgement
- Rulers and judges who heaven and hell
- To be and to accept bribe is a curse
- To be a ruler or judge is a serve test
- Divine help and guidance is withheld from the seekers pf power
- Some guidelines for the judges
- Evidence is essential for claim
- The ultimate abode of those who lay a false claim or swear a false oath is hell
- Even the PROPHETT’s decision cannot make anyone else property lawful
- False swearing is the worst form of sin
- People whose deositions are not worthy of trust
- System of Government
- Exhorting the people to obey the ruler, and the ruler to observe piety and be just
- Enjoining upon the rulers to be well-wishers of the people
- The doors of the rulers should always remain open petitioners
- The order of the ruler should be carried out provided it is not against the shari’ah
- It is not wise to have a woman as ruler
- A ruler appoints His successor to leaves it to men of influence and discernment
- Caliphate on the lines of messenger ship only for years
- Proper way of counselling kings and rulers
- The tyranny of rulers is the result of our own evildoing, and punishment from ALLAH