What are the Quranic texts and honorable Prophetic traditions that indicate the regulation of the relationship between workers and their employers in Islam?
There are many texts from the Qur’an and that regulate the relationship between the worker and the employer, including:
- The obligation to fulfill contracts, discharge trusts, be just, and avoid treachery.
- Describing the people of Paradise as those who guard their trusts and covenants.
- The command of the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, to give the laborer his due before his sweat dries, and that there is no faith for him who has no trust, and no religion for him who has no covenant.
- The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, encouraged perfection in work.
- The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, forbade deception.
- The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, commanded kindness to the servant, feeding him and clothing him from what one eats and wears, not burdening him with what he cannot bear, assisting him in his work, and forgiving him.
- The relationship between the worker and the employing entity is a hiring contract, and both parties are obligated to adhere to its provisions.
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