pursuing their passion for having a healthy bank balance, violating others’ rights. They do not care if they need to ruin someone’s family life, violate someone’s rights or even kill someone to satisfy their greed.

Just ponder over the fact that we are extremely careful in our personal matters so that people do not deceive us. If we need to refuel our vehicle, receive large amount of money from someone, purchase a shop, house, piece of land or other goods, have some documents prepared, we verify their authenticity or get their authenticity verified carefully and do not take any step unless we are satisfied. On the other hand, regretfully, people become extremely careless about earning and consuming Halal and Tayyib [i.e. pure] sustenance and refraining from everything that is Haraam and impermissible. Listen to four blessed sayings of the Beloved Rasool صَلَّى اللهُ تَعَالٰى عَلَيْهِ وَاٰلِهٖ وَسَلَّم regarding the terrible consequences of Haraam food and also make an intention to refrain from Haraam.

1. I swear by the One under Whose Power the life of Muhammad                      (صَلَّى اللهُ تَعَالٰى عَلَيْهِ وَاٰلِهٖ وَسَلَّم) is! Undoubtedly, [when] a man puts a Haraam morsel into his stomach, his forty days’ deeds are not accepted; and fire is better for the person who has consumed Haraam and Riba [i.e. interest] to nourish his flesh. (Al-Mu’jam-ul-Awsat, vol. 5, pp. 34, Hadees 6495)

2. When the deceased is placed on the Takht [bier] and raised, his soul moves with convulsive motion and sits on the Takht, and [then] cries out: O my family! Do not let the world play with you as it has played with me. I accumulated Halal and non-Halal Maal [i.e. wealth and possessions] and then left that Maal for others. Its benefit is for them and its harm is for me. Therefore, learn a lesson from whatever I have faced. (At-Tazkirah lil-Qurtubi, pp. 69)

3. The person who buys a cloth with ten dirhams and [if] one dirham out of them is Haraam, Allah عَزَّوَجَلَّ will not accept any of his Salahs until any portion of that cloth remains in his use. (Kanz-ul-‘Ummal, vol. 2, pp. 8, Hadees 9260)