I am a farmer who grows wheat and delivers it to the state silos, which gave me a card for a value of approximately seventy thousand riyals.
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The questioner : May Allah reward the honorableThe Shaykh : I am a farmer who grows wheat and delivers it to the silos, which gave me a card for a value of approximately seventy thousand riyals. They do not pay me its value until after several years. A man bought this wheat from me this year, along with the silo card, for forty thousand riyals in cash. Is this permissible? If it is not permissible, what should I do regarding the buyer, since he will refuse to cancel the transaction?
The Shaykh : Okay, regarding the wheat sold this year, does he want the wheat that was delivered to the state? If so, this is a mistake, because what is the status of the wheat that was delivered to the state? It is the property of the state; it has exited from his ownership. How can he sell it? The state now holds the value of the wheat. If he delivered it for seventy thousand riyals and then sold it for forty thousand riyals, it means he sold seventy thousand riyals worth of wheat at the state for forty thousand riyals. This is forbidden and not permissible. As for his problem with the man, that is for the judge; it is not for us here.
The Shaykh : Okay, regarding the wheat sold this year, does he want the wheat that was delivered to the state? If so, this is a mistake, because what is the status of the wheat that was delivered to the state? It is the property of the state; it has exited from his ownership. How can he sell it? The state now holds the value of the wheat. If he delivered it for seventy thousand riyals and then sold it for forty thousand riyals, it means he sold seventy thousand riyals worth of wheat at the state for forty thousand riyals. This is forbidden and not permissible. As for his problem with the man, that is for the judge; it is not for us here.