You must put a stop to all such practices because the Holy Prophet (s) has explicitly
prohibited such practices. Remember that trade should go on between the buyers and sellers
according to correct measures and weights and on such reasonable terms that neither the
consumers nor the suppliers should have to face losses. But even with all the sympathetic
treatments accorded to them and with all the facilities provided to them, if the traders and
industrialists carry on hoarding and black-marketing, then you must punish them according to
the intensity of their crime