Buying at a higher rate

Question

Question: (1) Eleven men had bought forty-one and a half maunds (a unit of weight, ≈ 37 kg) of paddy (unhusked rice) and were carrying it away; its value would be eleven hundred to twelve hundred rupees. When those eleven men reached our village, some people of the village unloaded all their paddy from the backs of the oxen and said: “Tell us, why did you buy paddy at thirty rupees a maund when the market rate was twenty-eight rupees? You raised the price by two rupees!

Answer

(1) This too was a grave act of oppression (zulm). Even before death, the oppressor has to suffer the evil consequences of oppression in this world as well; a curse has also come concerning it: [ar]عَنْ أَبِي بَكْرٍ الصِّدِّيقِ ﵁ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ: «مَلْعُونٌ مَنْ ضَارَّ مُؤْمِنًا أَوْ مَكَرَ بِهِ»

Source: Fatawa Mahmudiyya

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