Do not associate aught with Allah...

Do not associate aught with Allah; most surely polytheism is a grievous inequity B: The way to blame is only against those who oppress men and revolt in the earth unjustly; these shall have a painful punishment. C: and whoever among you is unjust, we will make him taste a great chastisement. D: And the day when the unjust shall Bite his hands, saying: O! would that I had taken a way with the apostle; O woe is to me! Would that I had not taken such a one for a friend!

Certainly he had led me astray from the reminder after it had come to me; and the shaitan fails to aid man. E: And do not think Allah to be heedless of what the unjust do; He only respites them to a day on which the eyes shall be fixed open. Vicious effects of injustice About the ominous consequences of oppression in this world the Holy Quran says: 1 - So those are their houses fallen down because they were unjust, most surely there is a sign in this for a people who know.

2 - see then what was the end of the unjust. 3 - Surely Allah does not do any injustice to men, but men are unjust to themselves. Traditions narration too are many in this connection. These examples should suffice: 1 - Imam Sadiq (a.s.) was asked about the verse he replied: It is a bridge on the Siraat in the Hereafter which cannot be crossed by a person who is indebted to others and he has not paid others dues.

2 - The Holy Prophet (s.a.w.s.) said: Everyone who fears qisaas retaliation and recompense of deeds prevents himself from oppressing others. 3 - It is also noted: Save yourselves from tyranny doing injustice to others as it is will cause darkness on the Day of Recompense. 4 - The worst provision on the Day of Judgement is tyranny to others.

5 - Imam Baqir (a.s.) said: What an oppressed will recover from the oppressor on the Day of judgement from the religion of the former is more than what the oppressor had seized from the oppressed in the world. 6 - Imam Sadiq (a.s.) says: No helper except Allah. 7 - The one who eats his brother's wealth unjustly and does not return it to him in fact has eaten a piece from Hellfire.

8 - The Holy Prophet is reported to have said: The best crusade is that a man wakes up in the morning with no intention at all of oppressing anyone or of doing any injustice to anybody.