I want to buy a house, and there are workers in this house who do not pray and who smoke; is it permissible for me to keep them in it if I buy it?
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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. He says: I want to buy a house, and workers live in this house. There are showers in it, they smoke in it, and they abandon the prayer. Is it permissible for me to buy this house, and is it permissible for me to keep them in it if I buy it? Yes.
Answer:
If you buy it in order to keep them in it, it is not permissible for you to approve of the evil. But if you buy it to prevent them from entering it and to rent it to good people, there is no harm in that. Yes.
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. He says: I want to buy a house, and workers live in this house. There are showers in it, they smoke in it, and they abandon the prayer. Is it permissible for me to buy this house, and is it permissible for me to keep them in it if I buy it? Yes.
Answer:
If you buy it in order to keep them in it, it is not permissible for you to approve of the evil. But if you buy it to prevent them from entering it and to rent it to good people, there is no harm in that. Yes.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، [503 -939]أريد شراء بيت وهذا البيت فيه عمال لا يصلون ويشربون الدخان فهل لي أن أبقيهم فيه إذا اشتريته — youtube.com
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