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THOSE WHO SELL THEIR OATHS FOR A SMALL PRICE
Those who sell Allah's contract and their own oaths for a paltry
price, such people will have no portion in the hereafter and on the Day
of Rising Allah will not speak to them or look at them or purify them.
They will have a painful punishment. (Surah Al 'Imran, 77)

THOSE WHO BREAK THEIR OATHS
If they break their oaths after making their treaty and defame your re-
ligion, then fight the leaders of disbelief – they have no binding oaths – so
that hopefully they will stop. Will you not fight a people who have bro-
ken their oaths and resolved to expel the Messenger, and who initiated
hostilities against you in the first place? Is it them you fear? Allah has
more right to your fear if you are believers. (Surat at-Tawba, 12-13)
Be true to Allah's contract when you have agreed to it, and do not
break your oaths once they are confirmed and you have made Allah
your guarantee. Allah knows what you do. Do not be like a woman
who spoils the thread she has spun by unravelling it after it is strong,
by making your oaths a means of deceiving one another, merely be-
cause one community is bigger than another. Allah is only testing you
by this. He will make clear to you on the Day of Rising the things
about which you differed. (Surat an-Nahl, 91-92)

THOSE WHO SWEAR TO FALSEHOOD
How will it be when a disaster strikes them because of what they
have done, and then they come to you swearing by Allah: 'We desired
nothing but good and reconciliation'? (Surat an-Nisa', 62)
Those who believe say, 'Are these the people who swore by Allah,
with their most earnest oaths, that they were with you?' Their actions
have come to nothing and they now are losers. (Surat al-Ma'ida, 53)
He (Satan) swore to them, 'I am one of those who give you good ad-
vice.' (Surat al-A'raf, 21)
If it had been a case of easy gains and a short journey, they would
have followed you, but the distance was too great for them. They will
swear by Allah: 'Had we been able to, we would have gone out with