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The longest verse in the Qur'an is a loan agreement

Verse 282 of Surah Al-Baqarah is the longest single verse in the Qur'an, and its subject is debt. It instructs believers who take on a loan for a fixed term to write it down, to have a scribe record it justly, to have the borrower dictate rather than the lender, to bring witnesses, and not to consider it beneath them to set the sum down whether it is small or large. It ends by allowing a pledged security when no scribe is available. A book that spends far fewer words on many devotional matters gives its longest passage to contract law, because unwritten debt between neighbours has destroyed more households than most disasters.

Surah Al-Baqarah, verse 282

Source · Qur'an 2:282