The Comparison Between Theft and Betrayal of Trust
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Question:
The questioner asks: Which is the greater sin, theft or betraying a trust? And if he does not repent from this, should we warn him?
Answer:
Both, both are evil. Theft and betraying a trust. Betraying a trust is theft if he intends it, if he schemes to take people’s money and takes it as a deposit in order to exhaust it and deny it; this is theft. A woman was in the time of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) who would borrow items and deny them, so the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) ordered her hand to be cut off; he ordered her hand to be cut off, because this is theft under the cover of a deposit or the cover of a loan. Yes.
The questioner asks: Which is the greater sin, theft or betraying a trust? And if he does not repent from this, should we warn him?
Answer:
Both, both are evil. Theft and betraying a trust. Betraying a trust is theft if he intends it, if he schemes to take people’s money and takes it as a deposit in order to exhaust it and deny it; this is theft. A woman was in the time of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) who would borrow items and deny them, so the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) ordered her hand to be cut off; he ordered her hand to be cut off, because this is theft under the cover of a deposit or the cover of a loan. Yes.
Source
دروس الحرم، درس التفسير من الحرم 28-07-1433هـ — alfawzan.live (56:32)
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