This document discusses the topic of oppression and injustice. It provides definitions of oppression, quotes hadiths and verses from the Quran that condemn oppression. It describes different forms of oppression like taking property unjustly, abuse of power, and withholding wages. The hadiths emphasize that oppressors will be held accountable on the Day of Judgment, when their good deeds will be taken and given to their victims. The document stresses that Allah will not forgive those who violate the rights of others and that oppressing even one person is a serious sin.

1. Compiled by: Bro. A. Erandio

2. • Oppression is to take away other peoples
property without right;
• to beat,
• abuse,
• and mistreat them;
• and to take advantage of the weak.

3. • Quran 14:42 Consider not that Allah (swt]) is
unaware of that which the Zalimun [polytheist,
wrong-doers] do, but he gives them respite up
to a day when the eyes will stare in horror.
• Prophet Muhammad (sas) said: Allah (swt)
grants the oppressor respite [for a period of
time], but when he finally seize him, he will not
let him escape.

4. • The Prophet (sas) said: If anyone has done wrong to his
brother [Muslim] with regard to his honors or anything
else, he should make reparation to him before a day on
which there will be no dinar or dirham.
• HIS GOOD DEEDS WILL BE TAKEN AWAY FROM HIM
• If he has any good deeds to his credit, they will be taken
away from him to the extent of his wrong doing,
• And if he did not have any good deeds, the evil deeds of
the others [to whom he did wrong] will be loaded upon
him.

5. • The Prophet (sas) said: “Allah says; ‘O my
servants I have prohibited injustice to my self
and have made it prohibited among you;
therefore, do not oppress each other. (S. Al-
Bukhari)

6. DO YOU KNOW WHO IS POOR ?
• Prophet Muhammad (sas) said: do you know who is poor? *the
listeners replied:
• O Mesgr. Of Allah, among us, the poor one is that person who does
not have any money or property.
• The Prophet (sas) said: Among my followers, the poor one is that a
person who will come on the day of resurrection with Prayers,
Fasting, Zakat and Hajj,
• but also with [a number of Injustices to others such] abusing this
one, taking the property of the one, slandering another, Shedding
the blood of someone else.
• THEN HIS GOOD DEEDS WILL BE TAKEN AWAY FROM HIM
• One by one and given to this person and that [who were oppressed
by him]. (S. Al-Bukhari)

7. • If his good deeds are exhausted before all his wrong deed are
settled, some of the evil deeds [of those whom he wronged] will be
allocated to him, and he be thrown into the fire. [Al-Kaba’r p. 114]
• SUPPLICATION OF THE OPPRESSED
• The Prophet Muhammad (sas) send Mu’adh to Yemen [as a
Governor], he told him: Beware of the supplication of the
oppressed, since there is no veil between him and Allah (swt). [S.
Al-Bukhari]
• TAKES EVEN ONE SPAN OF LAND
• Aisha (raa) reported Allah Mesgr. (sas) Saying: If anyone wrongfully
takes even one span of another persons land, on the day of
Resurrection his neck will be encircled by it to the depth of seven
earths.

8. • Jabir (raa) reported: when Makah was
conquered, the Muslim peopled who had
[earlier] migrated to Abyssinia returned and
came to the Prophet (sas), he asked them to tell
something of interest about the Abyssinian
people.
• The girl said: Yes, O Mesgr. Of Allah! Once we
were sitting and we saw a very old woman going
by with a jug of water on her head.

9. • She passed by a young man who put his hand
between her shoulders
• and pushed her so hard that she fell down and
broke the water jug.
• Then she stood up, looked at him, and said:
• you treacherous young man, you will learn!
• On the day when Allah (swt) will gather the
former and latter [peoples],

10. • And your hands and feet will speak about what
they did, then you will know!
• That day the matter between you and me will be
settled.
• Allah’s Mesgr. (sas) remarked: She spoke the
truth.
• How can Allah (swt) bless a nation which does
not help its weak ones against its strong? (Al-Kba’r)

11. FIVE PERSONS WITH WHOM
ALLAH IS ANGRY
Prophet Muhammad (sas) said: There are five types of persons with
whom Allah is angry, He may punish them in this world or may
postpone their punishment by fire to the hereafter.
1. A ruler of a nation who takes from the people but does not share
with them nor remove Injustices from them;
2. A leader of a people whom they obey but who do not deal equitably
between the strong and the weak, and who speaks according to his
[selfish] desires;
3. A man who does not order his wife and children to obey Allah (swt)
and does not teach them their religious duties;
4. A man who hires a worker, and after the work is completed, does not
pay him his full wages;
5. A man unjustly keeps his wife’s mahr [he does not give his wife the
obligatory mahr or refuses to pay it when she asks for divorce].

12. • WAHAB BIN MUNABBIH TOLD FOLLOWING STORY
• A Tyrant King constructed a beautiful palace.
• Afterward, an old Beggar woman came and made a little Hut for
herself at one side of the Palace.
• One day the King went around his Palace, admiring its beauty
[of the Palace] and he came upon the Hut and asked to whom it
belonged? He was told that it belonged to an old Beggar woman.
• Thereupon the King ordered that it be demolished.
• When the woman came back and asked about who had destroyed
her hut,
• She was told that the King had ordered its demolition.
• She raised her face towards the sky and complained;
• O Rub, if I was absent, where are you?
• Wahab bin Munabbih said: Allah (swt) ordered Jebril to turn the
Palace upside-down with the people in it, and Jebril did so. (Al-Kba’r)

13. • Abu Umama said: On the day of Resurrection, the
oppressor will meet the oppressed on the bridge over
hell;
• And he will realize that he had oppressed him.
• The oppressed will not leave the oppressor until he has
taken away the entire oppressor’s Good Deeds.
• If the oppressor’s Good Deeds are not sufficient to
balance the wrong he did, the evil deeds of the
oppressed person will be headed upon him until he
becomes deserving of the lowest level of the fire. (S. Al-
Bukhari)

14. • Taking an orphans property, beyond what is allowable for the
guardian, is also a kind of injustice.
• One of the greatest forms of oppression is to delay fulfilling
ones obligation, while having the means to do it.
• For example; not paying a debt, although having enough money
to pay it.
• The Prophet [sas] said: A rich man who delays [in payment] is
an oppressor.
• According to another hadith, it is permissible to prosecute
such a person and sentence him to a prison term.
• NOT GIVING ONE’S WIFE HER MAINTENANCE OR HER MAHR IS OPPRESSION
• Quran 2:241 And for divorced women, maintenance (should be
provided) on reasonable (scale). This is a duty on Al-Muttaqûn
(the pious)

15. • Ibn. Mas’ood said: on the day of resurrection, a
person’s hand will be held, and a call will be
made above the heads of people:
• This person is such and such, If anyone has a
claim against him, come and take it.
• ALLAH WILL NOT FORGIVE
Allah will forgive, to whomever He wills, any sins
against himself, but He will not forgive any
violation of the rights of people. (S. Al-Bukhari)

16. • Thus, a person will be made to stand up before the people
and Allah will tell the Claimants [oppress] “Take your rights”
• TAKE HIS GOOD DEEDS
• Then Allah tells the angels: “take his good deeds from him
and give them to the Claimants, in accordance with their
claims.”
• THERE ARE STILL SOME CLAIMANTS
• However, if he was an evil person, so that nothing
remains of his good deeds, the angels Will say: our Rub, his
good deeds have all been distributed, but there are still
some Claimants left!
• Allah will tell them: “Take some of their evil deeds and add
to his Evil deeds.” He will then beaten and driven to the fire.

17. • Prophet Muhammad (sas) said: Allah (swt) says: “There are
three types of persons whose adversary I My Self will be on
the Day of Resurrection.
1, The one who gives promise of protection [to a person] and
then betray him.
2, The one who sells a free person and consumes the price of
his sale.
3, And the one who employs a worker, and, when he finishes
his work, does not pay him his full wage.
• Therefore, if anyone oppresses a Jew or a Christian, or
diminishes a workers wage, or burden him beyond his
capacity, or take anything away from him without his
agreement, on the Day of Resurrection Allah will be his
adversary.” (S. Al-Bukhari - Al-Kaba’r p.120)

18. • Ibn. Abbas elaborated; Do not lean toward them with
love, nor soften your speech with them and show
kindness.
• SUROUNDED BY LOW TYPES OF PEOPLE
• Ibn. Mas’ood (raa) reported the Prophet (sas) as saying:
• There will be Rulers who will oppress the people and tell
lies, and they will be surrounded by low types of people
• Anyone who calls upon them, testifies to their lies, and
helps them in their oppression IS NOT FROM ME, nor am I
from him:
• And anyone who neither calls upon them nor supports
them in their oppression IS FROM ME, and I am from him. (Al-
Kaba’r)

19. • Saeed bin. Musayyib said: Never be pleased with the
supporters of Tyrants, but opposed them in your hearts:
otherwise your good deeds may become as nothing. [Al-
Kaba’r p.122]
• THE DOGS OF HELL FIRE
• Ibn. Umar said: On the Day of Resurrection, the aides of
oppressors and their police will be the dogs of Hell Fire.
• DO NOT STAND AROUND
• The prophet (sas) said: Do not stand around a place where
an oppressed person is being beaten without coming to his
defense, because Allah’s Curse descends upon such a place.
[Al-Kaba’r p. 123]

20. • A Persian King appointed a tutor for his son, the
Heir to the Throne.
• The Tutor taught him good manners and all kinds
of knowledge until the Prince had learned it well.
• Then one day, the tutor, without any cause,
started beating the Prince and gives him a good
thrashing.
• The Prince Harbored resentment in his heart
against the Tutor for this unjustified beating.

21. • When his father died and the Prince became the King,
• he called his former tutor and reminded him that on such
and such a day, he had beaten him harshly for no cause.
• The Tutor replied: LISTEN ‘O KING! When you had learned
well what I taught you of knowledge and manners,
• I realized that one day after your father’s death you
would ascend the throne.
• I then decided to teach you the pain of beating and the
suffering of being treated unjustly so that you would not
be unjust to anyone.
• The King said: may Allah reward you for it!
• The King he then ordered that the Tutor be given a
pension from the state treasury. [Al-Kba’r)