Page 448 - Learning from the Qur'an

NOT TO BREAK OATHS
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. (Qur'an, 16:91)

NOT TO DEVIATE FROM THE TRUTH
USING OATHS AS EXCUSES
Do not, by your oaths, make Allah a pretext to avoid good action
and doing your duty and putting things right between people.
Allah is All-Hearing, All-Knowing. (Qur'an, 2:224)

NOT TO MAKE OATHS A MEANS
OF DECEIVING ONE ANOTHER
Do not make your oaths a means of deceiving one another or your
foot will slip after it was firmly placed and you will taste evil for
barring access to the Way of Allah and you will have a terrible
punishment. (Qur'an, 16:94)
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 because 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.
(Qur'an, 16:92)

THE PENANCE FOR OATHS
Allah does not take you to task for your inadvertent oaths, but
He will take you to task for oaths you make intentionally. The
expiation in that case is to feed ten poor people with the average
amount you feed your family, or clothe them, or free a slave.
Anyone without the means to do so should fast three days. That
is the expiation for breaking oaths when you have sworn them.
Keep your oaths. In this way Allah makes His Signs clear to you,
so that hopefully you will be thankful. (Qur'an, 5:89)

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