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Your debts don't disappear when you die.

Your soul will be held ransom until your balance is settled. Is it ever worth it for you to get ahead by trampling the honor, the rights, or the property of others?

And if you get ahead here using what Allah hasn't actually permitted you to take,

what does it look like when Allah settles that debt in the Barzah? The Prophet, sallah aene-was-lam said, verily, the worst act of Ribba is to indulge in attacking the reputation of a Muslim without just cause.

If you let your tongue consume the honor of people without care for them,

what about their property? And it doesn't take much to see that predatory financial systems are

killing our world. They're perpetuating war, poverty, recklessness, and they're making the most

disgusting of human behaviors profitable. Firstly, the order for the believer is to live within his means and not take from this

Dunya except what he needs, then to make sure that he doesn't bury others in debt by his growing greed.

Let's start with the whole notion of debt first.

Muhammad bin Ujahjahsh, Radi Allah and who says we were sitting with the messenger of Allah,

Sallallah, a a a alexandah, when he raised his head towards the sky.

Then he put his palm on his forehead,

arih, a salatwath and he said,

Subhanna Allah, a serious issue has been revealed to me.

So we remain silent and we're afraid.

The following morning I asked the

Prophet's al-Islam, yeah, what is this serious issue that has been revealed? He said by the one in

whose hand is my soul, if a man were killed in battle for the sake of Allah, then brought back to life,

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