The whole message to Madyan was simple: give full measure and full weight, and do not cheat people of what is theirs. In Shu'ayb's story, honesty in business is worship, and cheating "just a little" on every scale is how a whole town fell.
His whole storyThe Prophet ﷺ said that no one eats better food than what they earn with their own hands, and gave Dawud as the example: a prophet and king who still ate from the work of his hands. There is no shame in work. There is honour in it.
His whole storyThe Prophet ﷺ said: "Zakariya was a carpenter." A prophet whose prayers Allah answered, and who earned his living with his hands.
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