27) Collecting Taxes
(The collector is the one who collects the taxes from sellers in the market in pre-Islamic times.)
Allah says,
{The blame is only against those who oppress men with wrongdoing and insolently transgress beyond bounds through the land, defying right and justice: for such there will be a chastisement grievous.} (Ash-Shura: 42)
The tax collector is one of the closest supporters of the oppressors. Rather he may be of the oppressors.
He takes what is not lawful to him and gives it to those who do not deserve it. Hence, the Prophet declared,