With the Hadith
Three Whose Adversary I Shall Be on the Day of Resurrection
We greet you all, dear listeners everywhere, in a new episode of your program "With the Hadith," and we begin with the best greeting: peace, mercy, and blessings of God be upon you.
Al-Bukhari narrated in his Sahih:
Yusuf bin Muhammad told us: Yahya bin Salim told me, from Ismail bin Umayya, from Saeed bin Abi Saeed, from Abu Hurairah, may God be pleased with him,
From the Prophet, may God bless him and grant him peace, who said: "God Almighty said: There are three whose adversary I shall be on the Day of Resurrection: a man who makes a covenant in My name and then breaks it, a man who sells a free man and consumes his price, and a man who hires a laborer, receives his due from him, but does not give him his wage."
It is mentioned in Fath al-Bari by Ibn Hajar in the explanation of this hadith:
His saying: (Three: I am their adversary)
Ibn Khuzaymah, Ibn Hibban, and Al-Ismaili added in this hadith, "And whoever I am his adversary, I will defeat him." Ibn al-Teen said: He, glory be to Him, is an adversary to all wrongdoers, but He intended to emphasize these by clarifying it. The adversary applies to one, two, or more than that. Al-Harawi said: The singular is with a kasra on the first letter. Al-Farra said: The first is the saying of the eloquent, and it is permissible for two adversaries and three adversaries.
His saying: (Makes a covenant in My name and then breaks it)
Thus it is for everyone to omit the object, and the meaning is: he gave his oath in Me, meaning he made a covenant and swore by God, then broke it.
His saying: (Sells a free man and consumes his price)
He singled out eating by mentioning it because it is the greatest purpose. It is mentioned by Abu Dawood in a hadith from Abdullah bin Umar, may God be pleased with him, in a raised form: "Three people their prayer will not be accepted," and he mentioned among them, "and a man who enslaves a free man." This is more general than the first in action and more specific than it in the object. Al-Khattabi said: Enslaving a free man occurs in two ways: that he frees him and then conceals that or denies it, and the second is that he uses him forcibly after freeing him, and the first is the most severe of the two. I say: And the hadith of the chapter is more severe because it includes with concealing the freeing or denying it, acting according to that by selling and consuming the price, so therefore the threat against it was more severe. Al-Muhallab said: And his sin was severe because Muslims are equal in freedom, so whoever sells a free man has prevented him from disposing of what God has permitted him and has forced him to the humiliation from which God has rescued him. Ibn al-Jawzi said: The free man is a servant of God, so whoever commits a crime against him, his adversary is his master.
His saying: (And a man who hires a laborer, receives his due from him, but does not give him his wage)
It is in the meaning of one who sells a free man and consumes his price, because he has received his benefit without compensation and as if he has eaten it, and because he has used him without pay and as if he has enslaved him.
Dear listeners
Hiring is one of the requirements of human life in all ages. No person is able to provide everything he needs by himself and with his individual strengths, but everyone needs everyone else, and this is a tangible and palpable reality.
God created people diverse in their tendencies and desires, and different in their abilities, so that integration between them would be natural and inevitable.
He who is not good at physical work is good at mental work, and he who is not able to do hard work can do easy work, and he who does not have the money to establish a profitable commercial project, God has prescribed for him ways to obtain money... including borrowing and speculation, and he who has nothing but his effort and is not good at managing work alone, the Sharia has permitted him to work for people for a wage. These and others are legitimate actions that the Sharia has permitted and permitted earning through them.
And he who works for a wage is the worker, and he is of two types:
1- The private worker: He is the one with whom a contract is made for the benefit of his own effort, and examples of this are: servants, and workers in factories, farms, and shops, and the like, as well as employees of the public sector (state employees), and employees of the private sector (commercial and service institutions) non-governmental.
2- And the general worker or the common worker: He is the one with whom a contract is made for the benefit of his work and not his effort. He does a specific work for all people for a specific wage for what he does, whether he does the work himself or someone else does it, unless it is one of the conditions of the contract that he does the work himself, then he must do it himself and it is not permissible for someone else to do it. Examples of this are: craftsmen such as tailors, shoemakers, carpenters, blacksmiths, engineers, doctors, lawyers, and the like.
All of those are workers who work for others in exchange for a wage.....
From the above, we note the importance of the existence of workers and their necessity in society... It is God's way in creation to make some of us subservient to others, as God Almighty said in Surat Al-Zukhruf:
(Is it they who would portion out the Mercy of your Lord? It is We Who portion out between them their livelihood in the life of this world, and We raise some of them above others in ranks, so that some may employ others in their work. But the Mercy of your Lord is better than that which they amass (32))
This subjugation from God to His servants did not make it wide open without controls and rulings, but rather made for hiring rulings that clarify the rights and duties of the worker and the employer,
So that some of them do not wrong others, so that injustice spreads and enslavement becomes widespread....
What about those who receive the benefit from the worker and do not give him his wage in return for the benefit he has provided to them... As if they are returning humanity to the eras of slavery and enslavement, where rights are lost and violated, and there is no overseer or accountability, as the ancients used to do in the first era of ignorance, enslaving people and subjecting them to their service without committing to providing them with a wage or compensation, as the Pharaohs did with those who built the pyramids for them, or what Saeed Pasha and Ismail Pasha did with those who dug the Suez Canal from the Egyptians.
But the great Islam did not allow man to be humiliated or his rights violated without giving him the power to take them, protect them, and defend them... So it legislated rulings that clarify the rights of the worker (employee) and the employer, and rulings that clarify the conditions for the validity of contracts and the conditions for their conclusion so that disputes are prevented from arising from those contracts, as well as setting out rules for resolving disputes that may arise between the contracting parties, as people are human beings prone to error, slipping, greed, and following the whims of the soul that incites evil.
So the texts (Qur'anic or prophetic) came to warn against violating the rulings of God, and whoever is not deterred by the warning is forced to submit to the Sharia against his will by a ruling from the judiciary and the power of the sultan, the sultan that we do not see any trace or shadow of today, because the rulings of Islam are absent from us, and people in this chaos are between two: an exploiter exploiting the absence of the sultan of Islam, spreading injustice and terror among the people, and one waiting for clear relief and a great victory... But whoever works to restore the sultan of Islam and eliminate injustice and tyranny is the one who will win a great victory.
O you who underestimate the worker and exploit his effort and toil, taking advantage of the absence of the sultan of Islam, fear God as He should be feared. And do not make God your adversary on a day when neither wealth nor children will benefit, except for one who comes to God with a sound heart.
Dear listeners, until we meet you with another prophetic hadith, we leave you in God's care, and peace, mercy, and blessings of God be upon you.
