Honesty in the Marketplace


"Rasul Allah (sal Allahu alaihi wa sallam) passed by a heap of food.
As he put his hand inside it, his fingers got wet. So he said to the
vendor: ‘What is this?’ He replied: ‘It was dampened by the rain
O Messenger of Allah.’ He (sal Allahu alaihi wa sallam) said: ‘Why
don’t you put it on top so that people can see it? He who cheats us
is not one of us.’” [Muslim]

In order for justice to prevail in society, it is necessary that
people are reminded of their moral obligations. The best police is a
person's own conscience; the person's awareness of the final
accountability before Allah (subhana wa ta'ala). When a community
loses its God consciousness, then no quantity of police, courts and
prisons are sufficient to keep it free of crime.

While taqwa (Allah consciousness) must be cultivated to keep society
healthy, law enforcers are nevertheless needed. There will always be
some recalcitrant, unscrupulous elements that will only respond to
force. The second khalifah, Umar ibn al-Khattab, had appointed market
inspectors in Madina to enforce honesty in transactions. Among them
were two women, Ash-Shifa bint Abd-Allah and Samra bint Nahik al-
Asadiyah. Samra used to bid people to do good and refrain from evil
and whipped whoever she found being dishonest.

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