The Bee
IN THE NAME OF GOD, THE MOST GRACIOUS, THE DISPENSER OF GRACE[16:94]
And do not use your oaths as a means of deceiving one another – or else [your] foot will slip after having been firm, and then you will have to taste the evil [consequences] of your having turned away from the path of God, with tremendous suffering awaiting you [in the life to come].

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* v.94 : I.e., “you will offend against God after having attained to faith,” seeing that – as has been pointed out in note 110 above – every pledge given by man to man is synonymous with a pledge to God.
* I.e., in this world (Tabarī, Zamakhsharī, Baydāwī), inasmuch as the breaking of pledges unavoidably leads to a gradual disappearance of all mutual trust and, thus, to the decomposition of the social fabric.