Mwenyezi Mungu, Mtukufu na Aliyetakasika, anatuonya kwa kusema: {Wala msile mali zenu baina yenu kwa batili.} (Al-Baqarah: 188)

Allah, Glorified and Exalted be He, cautions us saying, {And do not eat up your property among yourselves for vanities.} (AI-Baqarah: 188)

Aya hii inamaanisha kwamba Waislamu wameamrishwa na Allah kuepuka kuchukua mali ya kila mmoja wao kwa njia zisizo halali. Abdullah Ibn `Abbas (radhi za Allah ziwe juu yao wawili) alisema: "Kinachokusudiwa katika aya hii ni viapo vya uongo ambavyo kwavyo mtu huchukua mali ya mwingine bila haki." Ulaji wa haramu una aina mbili:

The verse means that Muslims are commanded by Allah to avoid taking the property of each other’s through illegal means. Abdullah Ibn `Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) said, "What is meant in the verse are the false oaths through which a person takes the property of another with no right." The consumption of Haram is of two kinds:

1) Kuchukua mali ya mtu mwingine kwa dhuluma, kama katika kesi za khiyana na wizi.

1) Taking another's property through oppression such as in cases of treachery and robbery.