One of the conditions of the item being sold is that it must be beneficial. What is the criterion for this benefit?
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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. One of the conditions of the item being sold is that it must be beneficial. The questioner, may Allah preserve you, asks: What is the criterion for benefit? Because something may be useful in one country but not in another?
Answer:
The criterion for benefit is the absence of harm; the beneficial is the opposite of the harmful. This is the criterion. Whatever is beneficial without harm, its sale is permissible. Whatever is harmful, its sale is not permissible. This is based on the saying of Allah the Exalted:[Al-Baqarah 2:195] Yes.
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. One of the conditions of the item being sold is that it must be beneficial. The questioner, may Allah preserve you, asks: What is the criterion for benefit? Because something may be useful in one country but not in another?
Answer:
The criterion for benefit is the absence of harm; the beneficial is the opposite of the harmful. This is the criterion. Whatever is beneficial without harm, its sale is permissible. Whatever is harmful, its sale is not permissible. This is based on the saying of Allah the Exalted:
and do not throw [yourselves] with your [own] hands into destruction [by refraining]
وَلَا تُلْقُوا بِأَيْدِيكُمْ إِلَى التَّهْلُكَةِ
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، [1552 -3022] من شروط المبيع أن يكون فيه نفعٌ، فما الضابط في هذا النفع؟ - الشيخ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com
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