The Ruling on Spending Money in Prohibitions and Its Connection to Ingratitude for Allah’s Blessings

The questioner:
The questioner: If a Muslim obtains money from a job, trade, or estate, and uses some of it to buy some prohibited items or things, is that considered...?

The Shaykh:
If he is.

The questioner:
If a Muslim obtains money from a job, trade, or otherwise, and uses some of it to buy some property or prohibited items, is that considered...?

The Shaykh:
Yes, if he uses the provision of Allah and what Allah has given him for prohibited things and sins, this is ingratitude for the blessing. Have you heard that the pillars of gratitude are three: acknowledging it outwardly, affirming it outwardly, and acknowledging it inwardly. Affirming it with the tongue means outwardly, and acknowledging it inwardly in the heart, and spending it in obedience to Allah the Exalted and Mighty. But if he spends it in disobedience to Allah, this is ingratitude for the blessing. Yes.