Is it permissible to sell cameras to disbelievers? With a discussion among the students regarding this.
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The questioner : It may be permissible to sell them to disbelievers... or is it not permissible?
The Shaykh : This question is not that one.
The questioner : It is a different question.
The Shaykh: Yes.
The questioner : Selling them to disbelievers.
The Shaykh : The ruling may differ. I cannot say right now that it is permissible in a single, definitive statement. However, without a doubt, selling it to a disbeliever is not the same as selling it to a Muslim. As for the Muslim, I have answered you based on what came before. As for the disbeliever, I cannot decide on the matter right now because I do not have a witness or evidence at hand to help me rule on its permissibility or impermissibility. So, I have no answer right now regarding the second question. If any of our brothers has a witness or evidence that helps us in this matter.
Is Abu al-Abd sleeping or awake?
The questioner : ... a gold ring, and the Messenger told him to take it off and throw it away, and after that he said to him: ... .
The Shaykh : Yes, it is permissible, just as the Lady Fatimah did; so he is able to do that. But this is out of his scrupulousness and as a rebuke of the thing for which the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) justified it by a bequest that was in his hand.
Yes.
The questioner : ... .
The Shaykh : Of course, it is possible.
The questioner : ... .
The Shaykh: Yes.
The questioner : Is a camera not originally forbidden?
The Shaykh: No.
The questioner : It means that dealing with it is not permissible.
The Shaykh : Unless a person wants to use it in what is permissible.
Eid Abbasi : Does it not count as a means, meaning proof...?
The Shaykh : No, what?
Eid Abbasi : Means... rather, according to how he uses it?
The Shaykh : That is why I said: if he wants to use it in what is permissible.
The questioner : Usually, the use of a camera is mostly and predominantly in what is forbidden.
Eid Abbasi : Yes, your point is that the original ruling on its use is that it is...
The questioner : The original ruling on using a camera...
The Shaykh : I mean, the original ruling in terms of reality.
Eid Abbasi : In terms of reality.
The questioner : In terms of reality.
Another questioner : Is it not used in medical photography, for example, or other things that benefit humanity?
Eid Abbasi : Or photography...
The questioner : At the lowest level, it is used in ordinary photography.
Another questioner : Photography is forbidden.
The Shaykh : This question is not that one.
The questioner : It is a different question.
The Shaykh: Yes.
The questioner : Selling them to disbelievers.
The Shaykh : The ruling may differ. I cannot say right now that it is permissible in a single, definitive statement. However, without a doubt, selling it to a disbeliever is not the same as selling it to a Muslim. As for the Muslim, I have answered you based on what came before. As for the disbeliever, I cannot decide on the matter right now because I do not have a witness or evidence at hand to help me rule on its permissibility or impermissibility. So, I have no answer right now regarding the second question. If any of our brothers has a witness or evidence that helps us in this matter.
Is Abu al-Abd sleeping or awake?
The questioner : ... a gold ring, and the Messenger told him to take it off and throw it away, and after that he said to him:
He benefited from its price
انتفع بثمنهThe Shaykh : Yes, it is permissible, just as the Lady Fatimah did; so he is able to do that. But this is out of his scrupulousness and as a rebuke of the thing for which the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) justified it by a bequest that was in his hand.
Yes.
The questioner : ... .
The Shaykh : Of course, it is possible.
The questioner : ... .
The Shaykh: Yes.
The questioner : Is a camera not originally forbidden?
The Shaykh: No.
The questioner : It means that dealing with it is not permissible.
The Shaykh : Unless a person wants to use it in what is permissible.
Eid Abbasi : Does it not count as a means, meaning proof...?
The Shaykh : No, what?
Eid Abbasi : Means... rather, according to how he uses it?
The Shaykh : That is why I said: if he wants to use it in what is permissible.
The questioner : Usually, the use of a camera is mostly and predominantly in what is forbidden.
Eid Abbasi : Yes, your point is that the original ruling on its use is that it is...
The questioner : The original ruling on using a camera...
The Shaykh : I mean, the original ruling in terms of reality.
Eid Abbasi : In terms of reality.
The questioner : In terms of reality.
Another questioner : Is it not used in medical photography, for example, or other things that benefit humanity?
Eid Abbasi : Or photography...
The questioner : At the lowest level, it is used in ordinary photography.
Another questioner : Photography is forbidden.
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