He used to get wages for exactly the amount of stitching he...

He used to get wages for exactly the amount of stitching he had done and just for as much time as he had spent working on the clothes. By no means he would accept to be paid more than what he had worked for. Thus, if someone would say: 'Reverend Shaykh! Let me pay a higher wage.' He would reject.

The reverend Shaykh charged his customers on the basis of ij'ara (contract on hire and lease) according to Islamic law.[^7] But since he never tended to receive more than what he had worked for the customers, in case after finishing the work if he found that he had done less work than predicted, he would give back the money that he thought was extra to his real wages! One of the Ulama said: 'I took some cloth to the Shaykh to make a robe, a cloak, and a quilted cloak.

I asked him how much I should pay.' "It needs two days work, so the wage will be forty tomans." He said. A couple of days later when I went for the clothes, he said: "The wage is only twenty tomans." I inquired: 'You said forty tomans?' He replied: "First I thought they needed two days work, but it just took one day to complete!" Someone else also said: 'I took some cloth to him to make a pair of trousers. I asked him how much it will come to. He said: 'Ten tomans.' I paid him right away.

When some time later I went to pick up the trousers, he placed a two-toman note on it and said: "The fee came to eight tomans." The Shaykh's son said: 'Once he settled with a customer to make a robe for 35 Rials. Some days later the customer came for the role.

No sooner had he walked away with the robe than my father ran after him and gave him five Rials back, saying: "I thought it would take me longer time to make this robe, but it did not!" A Reward for Equity Equity in all tasks, especially in transactions is an important issue that has been highly stressed in Islam. Imam Ali (a) said: الإنصاف أفضل الفضائل "Equity is the best of virtues."[^8] And he further said.