The ruling on accepting a gift if it is from forbidden wealth
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Question:
May Allah reward you. In her second-to-last question, she asks: What is the ruling on a Muslim using something that came to him as a gift or charity, when the owner of this gift or charity had usurped it from people who needed to sell it, and it is their property?
Answer:
If he knows that this wealth is forbidden, it is not permissible for him to accept the charity from him, nor the gift from him; because it is forbidden wealth, so he must refuse to accept it as charity or a gift or otherwise; because he knows that it is forbidden. As for if he does not know that it is forbidden—if the man has lawful wealth and he has forbidden wealth, and he does not know that this is from the forbidden—there is no harm in accepting it and eating from it, because the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) used to eat from the food of the Jews, and they dealt in riba (usury or interest), they dealt in forbidden matters, but not everything they have is from the forbidden; they have something lawful and they have something forbidden. Yes.
May Allah reward you. In her second-to-last question, she asks: What is the ruling on a Muslim using something that came to him as a gift or charity, when the owner of this gift or charity had usurped it from people who needed to sell it, and it is their property?
Answer:
If he knows that this wealth is forbidden, it is not permissible for him to accept the charity from him, nor the gift from him; because it is forbidden wealth, so he must refuse to accept it as charity or a gift or otherwise; because he knows that it is forbidden. As for if he does not know that it is forbidden—if the man has lawful wealth and he has forbidden wealth, and he does not know that this is from the forbidden—there is no harm in accepting it and eating from it, because the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) used to eat from the food of the Jews, and they dealt in riba (usury or interest), they dealt in forbidden matters, but not everything they have is from the forbidden; they have something lawful and they have something forbidden. Yes.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، 5735- حكم قبول الهدية إذا كانت من مال حرام - الشيخ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com
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