Eating fruit taken from a farm without the owner's permission
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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. He says: A colleague at work brought me some fruit. After I had eaten some of it, I asked him where it was from. He said he had brought it from the employer's farm without asking for his permission. He asks: What is the ruling on my eating it, and what is the expiation for that?
Answer:
A small amount, like an apple or an orange, is fine. People are generally lenient about this. Yes. However, if you make it a habit, and he brings you some and you eat it every day, that is not permissible. But if he brings you an apple, or an orange, or a tomato, or something like that, there is no harm in being lenient about it. Yes.
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. He says: A colleague at work brought me some fruit. After I had eaten some of it, I asked him where it was from. He said he had brought it from the employer's farm without asking for his permission. He asks: What is the ruling on my eating it, and what is the expiation for that?
Answer:
A small amount, like an apple or an orange, is fine. People are generally lenient about this. Yes. However, if you make it a habit, and he brings you some and you eat it every day, that is not permissible. But if he brings you an apple, or an orange, or a tomato, or something like that, there is no harm in being lenient about it. Yes.
Source
شرح كتاب فتح المجيد في شرح كتاب التوحيد [ صالح الفوزان ]، كتاب التوحيد، وبيان معنى التوحيد — islamhouse.com (1:02:34)
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