Mixing in Real Estate Markets and Forbidding What Is Wrong
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The questioner:
Your Eminence the Shaykh! What is your opinion regarding real estate, and the mixing that takes place in it, to the point that the authorities and patrols are unable to remove the wrong, and it is incumbent upon you to stand firm?
The Shaykh:
Real estate, real estate.
The questioner:
Also, real estate markets.
The Shaykh:
Yes, yes.
The questioner:
Because you are accountable for them on the Day of Resurrection, and regarding what you said about being unable to remove it; you are being deceived; because if you were sincere in that, Allah would have helped you in it.
The Shaykh:
May Allah accept the repentance of everyone, and the efforts return to us in this matter with the responsible officials. We ask Allah to help them in their exertion. My son, we and those like us do not have in our hands the reward of speech, advice, guidance, and expression to the ruler. Uthman said that Allah restrains by the authority what He does not restrain by the Qur'an. We ask Allah to guide the ruler and the authority that is commanded to change what is necessary of the required order, such as beating and imprisonment and the like; because many people are not benefited by that, so they need a restraining force from the authority, such as imprisonment and beating.
Your Eminence the Shaykh! What is your opinion regarding real estate, and the mixing that takes place in it, to the point that the authorities and patrols are unable to remove the wrong, and it is incumbent upon you to stand firm?
The Shaykh:
Real estate, real estate.
The questioner:
Also, real estate markets.
The Shaykh:
Yes, yes.
The questioner:
Because you are accountable for them on the Day of Resurrection, and regarding what you said about being unable to remove it; you are being deceived; because if you were sincere in that, Allah would have helped you in it.
The Shaykh:
May Allah accept the repentance of everyone, and the efforts return to us in this matter with the responsible officials. We ask Allah to help them in their exertion. My son, we and those like us do not have in our hands the reward of speech, advice, guidance, and expression to the ruler. Uthman said that Allah restrains by the authority what He does not restrain by the Qur'an. We ask Allah to guide the ruler and the authority that is commanded to change what is necessary of the required order, such as beating and imprisonment and the like; because many people are not benefited by that, so they need a restraining force from the authority, such as imprisonment and beating.
Source
ندوات الجامع الكبير مع الأسئلة - 57 — archive.org (14:21)
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