As a matter of fact, this verse makes the foundation and basis of Islamic laws and rules about trades and transactions. It is therefore a reasoning means in the logical hands of Islam's jurisprundents:

      ``Consume not your properties among yourselves in vain and for vanity or on account of anything devoid of worth and truth, except it be by way of trade of mutual consents. Therefore any kind of transgress, Fraud, Dishonesty, Usury, or transactions, the limits and bounds of which are not clear, or selling or buying things which are void of logical worth and use, or the facilities of sinning, are all under this law forbidden and declared unlawful.''

      The next part of the verse implies that killing yourself and committing suicide is much heinous a sin that leads to Hell:

      ``And do not kill yourselves by committing suicide.'' there is a fine touch here in this verse that, all the properties which you may hold, in trust, be it in your own name or belong to other people, or the community and the public purse, must not be wasted and consumed in vain and for nothing. Because in this case your waste returns and reacts towards your own ruin and destruction as if you are committing suicide by injuring the economy! So you must be careful of your own properties as well as for that of the other people as you are careful for your own life.

      When people try to rob each other by fraud, deception and tricks, and shake the firm foundation on committing economical suicide, which is none the less than personal taking lives.