Selling on the streets and the municipality’s confiscation of goods
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The questioner:
He says: We sell dates and similar vegetables in the public roads, and the municipality comes and confiscates our goods, and the police come and hand us over to the police station, saying that the state prohibits this sale, knowing that we have no source of income other than this. What is your Eminence’s opinion?
The Shaykh:
We are studying this with the authorities as well; because this may harm the owners of the known shops and sawmills. It may harm them: you are selling on the streets and they are left idle, while they are receiving large wages, they are working hard, you are taking the profits on the streets while they are sitting idle, and they may have rented shops and stores and spent money, while you are selling on the streets and taking the profits. This is the point of consideration; this is what needs to be looked into.
The questioner:
like this.
The Shaykh:
The reason for disapproving of this matter is clear; because the one who sells on the streets may cause hardship for the people who are in their places, who have rented, who have spent money on their shops and their sawmills. Yes.
He says: We sell dates and similar vegetables in the public roads, and the municipality comes and confiscates our goods, and the police come and hand us over to the police station, saying that the state prohibits this sale, knowing that we have no source of income other than this. What is your Eminence’s opinion?
The Shaykh:
We are studying this with the authorities as well; because this may harm the owners of the known shops and sawmills. It may harm them: you are selling on the streets and they are left idle, while they are receiving large wages, they are working hard, you are taking the profits on the streets while they are sitting idle, and they may have rented shops and stores and spent money, while you are selling on the streets and taking the profits. This is the point of consideration; this is what needs to be looked into.
The questioner:
like this.
The Shaykh:
The reason for disapproving of this matter is clear; because the one who sells on the streets may cause hardship for the people who are in their places, who have rented, who have spent money on their shops and their sawmills. Yes.
Source
لقاءات لابن باز - لقاء مفتوح مع الشيخ ابن باز-١ — archive.org (1:06:24)
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