Buying a mobile phone for someone who may use it for something forbidden
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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. This questioner is from outside this country and is currently residing here. He says: Two of my brothers belong to the Sufi order, and they asked me to buy them a mobile phone. They may perhaps use it for religious innovations or for listening to something forbidden. His question is: Is it permissible for me to buy it for them and send it to them?
Answer:
The mobile phone is permissible, so you may buy it for them, unless you know that they will use it for something forbidden, in which case you must not buy it for them, because that would be cooperating in sin and aggression. But if you do not know, then buy it for them; there is no harm in that.
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. This questioner is from outside this country and is currently residing here. He says: Two of my brothers belong to the Sufi order, and they asked me to buy them a mobile phone. They may perhaps use it for religious innovations or for listening to something forbidden. His question is: Is it permissible for me to buy it for them and send it to them?
Answer:
The mobile phone is permissible, so you may buy it for them, unless you know that they will use it for something forbidden, in which case you must not buy it for them, because that would be cooperating in sin and aggression. But if you do not know, then buy it for them; there is no harm in that.
Source
المنتقى من أخبار سيد المرسلين 26-06-1438 هـ — af.org.sa (1:12:32)
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