Sending money to a relative to buy land to plant qat
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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. The questioner says: I have a poor relative in a country outside this one. He asked me for a sum of money to buy land and plant it with the well-known qat tree. He says he refused to transfer the money to him for this reason. Is his action correct?
Answer:
Yes, if you sent him money to buy land to plant qat in, you would be assisting him in falsehood and in what is wrong, because qat is forbidden. Allah, Mighty and Majestic, says:[Al-Ma'idah 5:2] and qat are forbidden because they are both harmful.
They are intoxicating. The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) forbade every intoxicant and every intoxicating substance, and qat is stronger than tobacco. Is qat stronger than tobacco? It is more intoxicating and numbing to the body. So you are correct in refusing to lend your friend or brother money to buy land to plant qat, since he is not planting it with palm trees, nor planting it with grapes, nor planting it with good things.
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. The questioner says: I have a poor relative in a country outside this one. He asked me for a sum of money to buy land and plant it with the well-known qat tree. He says he refused to transfer the money to him for this reason. Is his action correct?
Answer:
Yes, if you sent him money to buy land to plant qat in, you would be assisting him in falsehood and in what is wrong, because qat is forbidden. Allah, Mighty and Majestic, says:
And cooperate in righteousness and piety, but do not cooperate in sin and aggression.
وَتَعَاوَنُوا عَلَى الْبِرِّ وَالتَّقْوَىٰ وَلَا تَعَاوَنُوا عَلَى الْإِثْمِ وَالْعُدْوَانِThey are intoxicating. The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) forbade every intoxicant and every intoxicating substance, and qat is stronger than tobacco. Is qat stronger than tobacco? It is more intoxicating and numbing to the body. So you are correct in refusing to lend your friend or brother money to buy land to plant qat, since he is not planting it with palm trees, nor planting it with grapes, nor planting it with good things.
Source
شرح إغاثة اللهفان من مصائد الشيطان لابن القيم، فصل ومن حيله ومكايده : الكلام الباطل والآراء المتهافتة والخيالات — islamhouse.com (1:05:42)
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