Analogy of cars with ridden animals in pledge
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The questioner:
Honorable Shaykh, are cars analogous to ridden animals, or are they not?
The Shaykh:
My two animals, why?
The questioner:
The ridden ones. The cars.
The Shaykh:
No, cars do not require maintenance; an animal dies if you do not provide for it, but a car, if you do not put gas in it, it is fine, it lasts ten years, so it does not require maintenance. Is it not permissible to ride it? Yes.
The questioner:
The Shaykh’s case.
The Shaykh:
Only if its owner has given you permission to ride it, except if the debt is a loan. If the debt for which the pledge was made is a loan, it is not permissible for you to benefit from the pledge, because that means circumventing the prohibition of increasing the loan.
Honorable Shaykh, are cars analogous to ridden animals, or are they not?
The Shaykh:
My two animals, why?
The questioner:
The ridden ones. The cars.
The Shaykh:
No, cars do not require maintenance; an animal dies if you do not provide for it, but a car, if you do not put gas in it, it is fine, it lasts ten years, so it does not require maintenance. Is it not permissible to ride it? Yes.
The questioner:
The Shaykh’s case.
The Shaykh:
Only if its owner has given you permission to ride it, except if the debt is a loan. If the debt for which the pledge was made is a loan, it is not permissible for you to benefit from the pledge, because that means circumventing the prohibition of increasing the loan.
Source
شرح بلوغ المرام من أدلة الأحكام [ صالح الفوزان ]، أبواب السلم والقرض والرهن — islamhouse.com (13:46)
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