the envious, the miserly, the sorcerer, the one who takes interest and the one who pays it, the thief, the adulterer, the conceited, the boastful, the arrogant tyrant, and others like them. Likewise, He has praised the pious believer, the truthful, the dutiful, the just, the rightly guided, the upright, the generous, the charitable, the merciful, and others like them.
“The Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, cursed the one who takes interest, the one who pays it, its two witnesses and its scribe.”
He also cursed the man who marries a woman to make her lawful again for her former husband, and the former husband for whose sake this is done. He cursed whoever does what the people of Lot did. He cursed whoever commits an offense or shelters an offender. He cursed wine, the one who presses it, the one who has it pressed, the one who carries it, the one to whom it is carried, its seller, its buyer, the one who serves it, the one who drinks it, and the one who consumes its proceeds. He cursed the Jews and Christians because, when animal fats were forbidden to them, they rendered them, sold them, and consumed their proceeds. Allah cursed those who conceal the clear proofs He revealed after He had made them clear to people, and He mentioned the curse upon the wrongdoers.
Allah and His angels send blessings upon the Prophet and upon those who believe. The patient person who says, “To Allah we belong and to Him we shall return,” receives blessings and mercy from his Lord. Allah and His angels send blessings upon the one who teaches people good, and everything seeks forgiveness for him, even the fish and the birds. Allah commanded His Prophet to seek forgiveness for his own sin and for believing men and women.
Thus, when the purpose is to enjoin good and encourage it, and to forbid evil and warn against it, these things must be mentioned. For this reason, whenever the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, learned that someone had done something he forbade, he would say: “Why is it that some men stipulate