The ruling on one who steals to relieve himself and his children
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Question:
Then he says, may Allah keep you safe and protect you: If a person is in need and poor, and is compelled to steal in order to feed himself and his children, is the hadd (fixed punishment) carried out against him if he steals?
Answer:
If he needs food, and if he does not eat he will die, then he takes from another person’s wealth the amount that preserves his life, because this is a dire necessity. Allah, Mighty and Majestic, says:[Al-An'am 6:119] But he must pay the value to its owner. Yes.
Then he says, may Allah keep you safe and protect you: If a person is in need and poor, and is compelled to steal in order to feed himself and his children, is the hadd (fixed punishment) carried out against him if he steals?
Answer:
If he needs food, and if he does not eat he will die, then he takes from another person’s wealth the amount that preserves his life, because this is a dire necessity. Allah, Mighty and Majestic, says:
excepting that to which you are compelled
إِلَّا مَا اضْطُرِرْتُمْ إِلَيْهِ
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، [2818 -3022] هل صح أن عمر -رضي الله عنه- ترك حد السرقة في عام المجاعة؟ - الشيخ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com (0:19)
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