Calling Towards Goodness in the Markets

Abjar bin Jarmouz narrates that his father said to him, “I saw Hazrat Ali (ra) departing from Kufa. At the time, he was wearing two Qitri cloaks (Qitr is the name of a settlement in Bahrain, where red stripped cloth was made), one of which he was wearing as a lower garment that draped up to the middle of his calf and the other, he wore as a cloak. He held a whip in his hand and as he walked through the marketplace, he advised the people to fear Allah, to speak the truth, to buy and sell in good faith and to give full measure and accurate weight [of the goods].”