Law of Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vices
Responsibilities of the Overseer Regarding Merchants, Shopkeepers, and Farmers

Article Eighteen:
The overseer is responsible for ensuring that merchants, shopkeepers, and farmers adhere to the following in their transactions and activities:
1. Mandating the performance of congregational prayers in the mosque at specified times.
2. Ensuring timely payment of Zakat, Khoms, and other financial obligations to those entitled.
3. Conducting transactions in accordance with Hanafi jurisprudence.
4. Prohibiting usury (interest), hoarding (stockpiling goods with the intent to raise prices), deceit (concealing defects of goods), cheating (shortchanging in weight, volume, and measures), manipulation (influencing buyers), unfair practices, false oaths, lies, and other unlawful practices related to transactions.
5. Preventing the sale and purchase of items that are religiously forbidden or illegal, such as alcohol, forbidden meat, blood, weapons, ammunition, military equipment, and images of living creatures.
6. Prohibiting the use of images of living creatures for advertising purposes.
7. Preventing the sale and use of human body parts, such as kidneys, liver, eyes, and hair.

This article from the Taliban's formal legal code imposes religious and economic restrictions on market actors, mandating prayer attendance, banning specific types of commerce (e.g., images, organ sales), and enforcing commercial conduct based on Hanafi jurisprudence. The law blends religious doctrine with market regulation, raising concerns about coercion, expression limits, and interference in economic freedoms.