If you are involved in a business or trade, then always give full measure and weight to your customers. Do not fraudulently sell them things which are defective. Never diminish items from the agreed standards in terms of quality or quantity. [Al-Quran 6:152; 7:85; 11:84-85; 17:35; 26:181-183; 55:9]
وَأَوْفُوا الْكَيْلَ وَالْمِيزَانَ بِالْقِسْطِ
Give full measure and weight with justice [6:152].
فَأَوْفُوا الْكَيْلَ وَالْمِيزَانَ وَلَا تَبْخَسُوا النَّاسَ أَشْيَاءَهُمْ
And give full measure and weight and do not defraud* people from their things [7:85].
وَلَا تَنقُصُوا الْمِكْيَالَ وَالْمِيزَانَ
And do not diminish** the measure or the weight [11:84]
أَوْفُوا الْمِكْيَالَ وَالْمِيزَانَ بِالْقِسْطِ ۖ وَلَا تَبْخَسُوا النَّاسَ أَشْيَاءَهُمْ
And give full measure and weight and do not defraud people from their things [11:85]
وَأَوْفُوا الْكَيْلَ إِذَا كِلْتُمْ وَزِنُوا بِالْقِسْطَاسِ الْمُسْتَقِيمِ
And give full measure when you measure and weigh with an upright/even/straight balance [17:35]
أَوْفُوا الْكَيْلَ وَلَا تَكُونُوا مِنَ الْمُخْسِرِينَ
وَزِنُوا بِالْقِسْطَاسِ الْمُسْتَقِيمِ
وَلَا تَبْخَسُوا النَّاسَ أَشْيَاءَهُمْ
Give full measure and be not of those who cause loss (to others by fraud). And weight with an upright/even/straight balance. and do not defraud people from their things [26:181-183]
وَأَقِيمُوا الْوَزْنَ بِالْقِسْطِ وَلَا تُخْسِرُوا الْمِيزَانَ
And establish weight in justice and do not fall short in balance [55:9]
* bakhs(un) بخس means ‘deficient’, ‘defective’, ‘faulty’, ‘lessened’, ‘diminished’.
** naqs(un) نقص means ‘a state of diminution’, ‘defect’, ‘defectiveness’, ‘deficiency’, ‘incompleteness’, ‘imperfection’.
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