What is your opinion on smuggling between one country and another, given that the route is safe in terms of personal safety but not safe in terms of property?
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The Shaykh : What is your opinion on smuggling between one country and another, given that the route is safe in terms of personal safety but not safe in terms of property? Is it forbidden or not?
What is your opinion regarding the report about hail, from Zayd ibn Anas—approximately in its meaning—that one of them ate hail in Ramadan and said, "It is not food or drink," so he went to the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) and informed him of it, and he said, "Take it from your uncle"? Is this a valid hadith, and did the two Shaykhs narrate it?
This hadith is denounced, and the two Shaykhs did not narrate it at all; rather, it is a fabrication by "Al-Arabi." What is its name? "Al-Arabi Magazine," and the writer is "Abd al-Kabir"?
The questioner : "Abd al-Warith."
The Shaykh : "Abd al-Warith Kabir."
As for the issue of smuggling, which has been mentioned more than once, the summary is that smuggling exists because of the systems established in contradiction to the Islamic Shari'ah. In reality, the Islamic land is one land, so it is not supposed to have borders, nor is it supposed to have borders and restrictions between one state or small state and another, such as the prohibition of bringing a certain type of goods to another town. This is not present in the original Islamic system, but now it exists. I believe that if smuggling leads to disparaging the Muslim, which in turn leads to disparaging the Islamic Shari'ah on the grounds that this is a system and the system must be preserved, then just as we say, "What is necessary for the performance of an obligation is itself obligatory," we also say, "What is necessary for preserving the reputation of Islam is also obligatory." Therefore, from this perspective, we do not consider smuggling permissible. Why? Because it leads to touching Islam. However, in its original nature, as we mentioned, there are no borders in Islamic lands, no customs, and no taxes!
What is your opinion regarding the report about hail, from Zayd ibn Anas—approximately in its meaning—that one of them ate hail in Ramadan and said, "It is not food or drink," so he went to the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) and informed him of it, and he said, "Take it from your uncle"? Is this a valid hadith, and did the two Shaykhs narrate it?
This hadith is denounced, and the two Shaykhs did not narrate it at all; rather, it is a fabrication by "Al-Arabi." What is its name? "Al-Arabi Magazine," and the writer is "Abd al-Kabir"?
The questioner : "Abd al-Warith."
The Shaykh : "Abd al-Warith Kabir."
As for the issue of smuggling, which has been mentioned more than once, the summary is that smuggling exists because of the systems established in contradiction to the Islamic Shari'ah. In reality, the Islamic land is one land, so it is not supposed to have borders, nor is it supposed to have borders and restrictions between one state or small state and another, such as the prohibition of bringing a certain type of goods to another town. This is not present in the original Islamic system, but now it exists. I believe that if smuggling leads to disparaging the Muslim, which in turn leads to disparaging the Islamic Shari'ah on the grounds that this is a system and the system must be preserved, then just as we say, "What is necessary for the performance of an obligation is itself obligatory," we also say, "What is necessary for preserving the reputation of Islam is also obligatory." Therefore, from this perspective, we do not consider smuggling permissible. Why? Because it leads to touching Islam. However, in its original nature, as we mentioned, there are no borders in Islamic lands, no customs, and no taxes!
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