The Ruling on Selling Statues and Discovered Gold and Silver
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The questioner:
If what is connected to the earth is ruins, it is not permissible to trade between it and stone or what is in the ruins. Do you make this based on that famous verse?
The Shaykh:
As for the issue of these statues, they must not be sold because they must be destroyed. They are not wealth; they are not among the categories of wealth because they are forbidden, and wealth is only that which is permissible. As for gold and silver, they have a different ruling. If the gold and silver are from the currency of the Muslims or the currency of the people of the current era, it is a lost item and has the ruling of a lost item: it must be announced until its owner is found. However, if these coins are old, from the burial of the pre-Islamic age of ignorance, and it is not known to whom they belong—whether they belong to the Muslims or the disbelievers—
These are called rikaz (buried treasure). The obligatory portion of the rikaz is one-fifth. So he pays its one-fifth. The one-fifth is paid to the public treasury, and four-fifths belong to him. Four-fifths of the treasure belong to him, and four-fifths belong to him. Yes.
The questioner:
And if that is prevented, do we bring the house?
The Shaykh:
As for me. How many statues do we pack? Yes. The gold and silver is not paid [as a fee], we said if its owners are known, then it belongs to them. And if its owners are not known, and it is not known whether it is from the currency of the Muslims or the currency of the disbelievers, and it has no mark, no mark of the Muslims and no mark of the disbelievers, then its ruling is that of rikaz: he pays one-fifth to the public treasury and the rest belongs to him.
If what is connected to the earth is ruins, it is not permissible to trade between it and stone or what is in the ruins. Do you make this based on that famous verse?
The Shaykh:
As for the issue of these statues, they must not be sold because they must be destroyed. They are not wealth; they are not among the categories of wealth because they are forbidden, and wealth is only that which is permissible. As for gold and silver, they have a different ruling. If the gold and silver are from the currency of the Muslims or the currency of the people of the current era, it is a lost item and has the ruling of a lost item: it must be announced until its owner is found. However, if these coins are old, from the burial of the pre-Islamic age of ignorance, and it is not known to whom they belong—whether they belong to the Muslims or the disbelievers—
These are called rikaz (buried treasure). The obligatory portion of the rikaz is one-fifth. So he pays its one-fifth. The one-fifth is paid to the public treasury, and four-fifths belong to him. Four-fifths of the treasure belong to him, and four-fifths belong to him. Yes.
The questioner:
And if that is prevented, do we bring the house?
The Shaykh:
As for me. How many statues do we pack? Yes. The gold and silver is not paid [as a fee], we said if its owners are known, then it belongs to them. And if its owners are not known, and it is not known whether it is from the currency of the Muslims or the currency of the disbelievers, and it has no mark, no mark of the Muslims and no mark of the disbelievers, then its ruling is that of rikaz: he pays one-fifth to the public treasury and the rest belongs to him.
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