The Ruling on Selling to Disbelievers on Their Festivals
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The questioner:
He (may Allah have mercy on him) stated that there are two narrations explicitly attributed to Ahmad. It can be said that selling to them on their festival is like transporting goods to the land of war, in that...
The Shaykh:
Meaning, it is forbidden. Yes.
The questioner:
For transporting clothes and food to the land of war constitutes aiding them in their religion in general. And if we prohibit it for the land of war, then it is even more so here, and most of its principles and texts indicate the prohibition of that?
The Shaykh:
Yes, this is the stronger position; because it is not permissible to sell to them on their festivals, but buying from them is not a problem. Yes.
He (may Allah have mercy on him) stated that there are two narrations explicitly attributed to Ahmad. It can be said that selling to them on their festival is like transporting goods to the land of war, in that...
The Shaykh:
Meaning, it is forbidden. Yes.
The questioner:
For transporting clothes and food to the land of war constitutes aiding them in their religion in general. And if we prohibit it for the land of war, then it is even more so here, and most of its principles and texts indicate the prohibition of that?
The Shaykh:
Yes, this is the stronger position; because it is not permissible to sell to them on their festivals, but buying from them is not a problem. Yes.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، [1492] رأي الإمام أحمد وغيره في حكم بيع السلع على الكفار يوم عيدهم I الشيخ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com (1:50)
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