Is it permissible to sell booklets that have "waqf for Allah the Exalted" written on them, if this was the result of a printing error?
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The questioner:
Another person says: I had approximately forty thousand booklets printed, and I agreed with the printing presses that only four thousand should have "waqf for Allah the Exalted" written on them, but they wrote it on all of them. The question is: Is it permissible for me to give some of them away or sell them?
The Shaykh:
You are bound by what you agreed upon with them, the printing presses. If you did not want more than four thousand and instructed them to write "waqf" on those, and you intended to sell the rest, then you are acting according to your intention, and Allah is the One who knows the secret and what is even more hidden. You can erase what they wrote and sell the excess over the four thousand. You know your own intention best, and actions are judged by intentions. Yes.
The questioner:
Some of the teachers.
The Shaykh:
You erase the "waqf" from the four thousand, distribute them, and write "waqf" on them. As for the excess, if you are permitted to keep it, praise be to Allah. If you are not permitted, then they made a mistake against you, and you erase what they wrote so that people are not misled by it. If you sell it while it is written as "waqf," you deserve discipline; you should be disciplined.
Another person says: I had approximately forty thousand booklets printed, and I agreed with the printing presses that only four thousand should have "waqf for Allah the Exalted" written on them, but they wrote it on all of them. The question is: Is it permissible for me to give some of them away or sell them?
The Shaykh:
You are bound by what you agreed upon with them, the printing presses. If you did not want more than four thousand and instructed them to write "waqf" on those, and you intended to sell the rest, then you are acting according to your intention, and Allah is the One who knows the secret and what is even more hidden. You can erase what they wrote and sell the excess over the four thousand. You know your own intention best, and actions are judged by intentions. Yes.
The questioner:
Some of the teachers.
The Shaykh:
You erase the "waqf" from the four thousand, distribute them, and write "waqf" on them. As for the excess, if you are permitted to keep it, praise be to Allah. If you are not permitted, then they made a mistake against you, and you erase what they wrote so that people are not misled by it. If you sell it while it is written as "waqf," you deserve discipline; you should be disciplined.
Source
قناة «فضيلة الشيخ ابن باز Alsheikh Binbaz»، 377 هل يجوز بيع الكتيبات المكتوب عليها وقف لله تعالى وذلك نتيجة خطا المطبعة؟ للإمام ابن باز — youtube.com
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