Disposing of Forbidden Wealth After Repentance
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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. A questioner says: What should one do with forbidden wealth that he has acquired and then repented from it?
Answer:
He should dispose of it by placing it in a cooperative or distributing it to those in need, not as charity, but because he wants to get rid of it, just like lost money. Where does lost money go? It is distributed to the poor and the needy, because this wealth has no owner; it has no owner.
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. A questioner says: What should one do with forbidden wealth that he has acquired and then repented from it?
Answer:
He should dispose of it by placing it in a cooperative or distributing it to those in need, not as charity, but because he wants to get rid of it, just like lost money. Where does lost money go? It is distributed to the poor and the needy, because this wealth has no owner; it has no owner.
Source
شرح العقيدة الواسطية، العقيدة الواسطية 13-03-1438هـ — alfawzan.live (51:59)
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