Lesson fifteen :The worst profession

Islam's Prophet( S. A. )said:

شَرُّ الْمَكاسِبِ كَسْبُ الرِّبا

Imam Sadegh( A. S. )said:

إذا أَرادَ اللّهُ بِقْومٍ هَلاكا ظَهَرَ فِيْهِمُ الرِّبا

Translation

Prophet( S. A. )said: The worst profession is one which is mingled with usury.

Imam Sadegh( A. S. )said: When God wills to perish a nation, usury becomes manifest among them..

Brief description

Despite of brisk market of usurers in the present world, and special dependency of this world on usury in different forms, it is evident that usury destroys financial and economical system of societies and results in terrible accumulation of wealth in the hand of limited number of people and institutions, and this unfair distribution of wealth is the source of different social misfortunes and moral corruption.