Islam views cheating, deception and backstabbing as heinous crimes which will be a source of shame to the guilty party both in this world and the next. The Prophet announced that on the Day of Resurrection, every traitor would be raised carrying the flag of his BETRAYAL and a caller will cry out in the vast arena of judgement, pointing to him and drawing attention to him:

“Every traitor will have a banner of the Day of Resurrection, and it will be said: ‘This is the BETRAYER of so-and-so.’” (*)

How great will be the shame of those traitors, men and women, who thought that their betrayal was long since forgotten, and now here it is, spread out for all to see and carried aloft on banners held by their own hands.

Their shame on the Day of Judgement will increase when they will see the Prophet, who is the hope of intercession on that great and terrible Day, standing in opposition to them, because they have committed the heinous crime of betrayal, which is a crime of such enormity that it will deprive them of the mercy of Allah and the intercession of the Prophet:

“Allah, may He be exalted, said: ‘There are three whom I will oppose on the Day of Resurrection: a man who gave his word, and then BETRAYED; a man who sold a free man into slavery and kept the money; and a man who hired someone, benefitted from his labour, then did not pay his wages.’” (**)

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(*) Bukhari and Muslim.

(**) Fath al-Bari, 4/417, Kitab al-Buyu', bab ithm man ba'a hurran.

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~ Excerpt from the book: ‘Ideal Muslimah’, authored by Dr. Muhammad Ali al-Hashimi