What is the obligation of one who took money without right from a company?
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Question:
He says: A person took money without right from a company. Is it permissible for him to give this money in charity on behalf of the owner of this company if it is difficult for him to return this money directly?
Answer:
As long as the owner of the company is alive and his heirs are present, you must return the money to him and to his heirs, unless they permit you to do otherwise, because this is the right of a created being that you must fulfill, and they have permitted it on his behalf. You do not give it in charity; you return it to him and to his heirs. Giving it in charity is only if you do not know its owner, its owner is lost, you do not know where he went, and he has no heirs that you know. In that case, you give it in charity with the intention that the reward belongs to its owner. Yes.
He says: A person took money without right from a company. Is it permissible for him to give this money in charity on behalf of the owner of this company if it is difficult for him to return this money directly?
Answer:
As long as the owner of the company is alive and his heirs are present, you must return the money to him and to his heirs, unless they permit you to do otherwise, because this is the right of a created being that you must fulfill, and they have permitted it on his behalf. You do not give it in charity; you return it to him and to his heirs. Giving it in charity is only if you do not know its owner, its owner is lost, you do not know where he went, and he has no heirs that you know. In that case, you give it in charity with the intention that the reward belongs to its owner. Yes.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، ما الواجب على مَن أخذ أموالاً بغير حق من شركة؟ #فتاوى الفوزان — youtube.com
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