OBSERVANCE OF MEASURE AND WEIGHT IN SHOPPING IN THE KORAN, REFLECTS OF THE VIOLATION OF THIS IN BUSINESS LIFE IN OUR DAY
K. KERÎM’DE ALIŞVERİŞTE ÖLÇÜ VE TARTIYA RİÂYET VE BUNU İHLÂLİN GÜNÜMÜZ İŞ HAYATINDAKİ YANSIMALARI

Author : Hayati SAKALLIOĞLU
Number of pages : 957-977

Abstract

Deceiving people is rather nefarious. The correct measurement, to weigh something with a correct scale, to make weight in balance in shopping is of great importance. The order of heaven is depend on this. The tribe of Şuaybs was destroyed just because of fraud in measurement and weight have been used. The Koran warns those who fraud in trade. Societal order is built on compliance with measurement and weight and correctness in acts against others. The acts reverse this give way to wrath of Allah. The most important factor that is able to protect people against fraud is believe in hereafter. Those who believe in hereafter are afraid of Allah. They can not get up courage to deceive other people. Those who do not believe in hereafter are trying to gain more. Humans have to communicate with others as social beings from their birth till death. The most important principle in social environment interaction is moral that is necessarily taken into consideration. To abstract moral from economic surrounding is impossable. Otherwise distrust and unrest would govern societies. Advancement in technology which is rapidly appeared in social environment and moral erosion caused substantial damages on moral values and professional ethic. The source of the many problems faced by societies is ignoring of moral values in the developments of economic, social, cultural and political fields. In an environment in which social and economic conditions have been hard day by day rest and happiness could only be gripped by humans by acting out moral values as in

Keywords

Shopping, Measurement and Weight, Business life, Justice, Trust.

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