What is the ruling on selling a commodity to one who uses it for evil, such as selling grapes to one who makes them into intoxicants?
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The questioner : A second question... regarding the topic of fatwas... selling to disbelievers; if one knows that these grapes are given to a disbeliever or an open sinner to make intoxicants from them, then it is not permissible for him to sell. So dealing with disbelievers or open sinners generally, if the predominant suspicion is that this sale is for this specific benefit, or that the sale is general.
The Shaykh : Do you mean the benefit, meaning this harm?
The questioner : For this harm, meaning for this point, meaning specifically, or.
The Shaykh : If the predominant suspicion is that it is harmful, it is not permissible to trade with him.
The questioner : I mean a sequential process; if we take this, we might not sell grapes—for example—we sell fertilizer, which he uses to fertilize the grapes so that the grapes grow, and he takes them and makes intoxicants from them; so the process, I mean, can be accepted sequentially, or for example.
The Shaykh : And it is so; because the issue of selling grapes to one who presses them into intoxicants is an example, so infer from that.
The questioner : ... any dealing... dealing generally with disbelievers and open sinners.
The Shaykh : No, no, it is not so.
The questioner : I will give an example, and then you.
The Shaykh : You give an example; if it matches the first example, I will agree with you unconditionally.
The questioner: No, no.
The Shaykh : So what is the benefit?
The questioner : Excuse me, the speech I am saying... any dealing with them; I mean, if I sold him wood.
The Shaykh : I am telling you the same thing, I am telling you the same thing in advance, to save you from giving examples. Do you not know that the Messenger (peace be upon him) died and his armor was pledged with a Jew?
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh : Is that dealing, is it not permissible?
The questioner : It is permissible.
The Shaykh : So what dealing? You do not need to.
The questioner : I mean the dealing in which the predominant suspicion is that it is harmful.
The Shaykh : But, that is it.
Another questioner : Okay; if—for example—we know that, or as is the case in many institutions of the Christians or disbelievers in hospitals, and you know that the owners of this institution, a large part of its revenue goes to Christianizing, and to the enemies of Allah, and to fighting the callers to Islam, and so on.
The Shaykh : Oh teacher, there is no benefit in enumerating examples.
Another questioner : I mean the same thing.
The Shaykh : Take the rule and be at ease.
Another questioner : I mean it is not just an issue of selling.
The Shaykh : Any dealing in which the predominant suspicion is that it involves assisting the disbeliever against the Muslim, this is not permissible.
The Shaykh : Do you mean the benefit, meaning this harm?
The questioner : For this harm, meaning for this point, meaning specifically, or.
The Shaykh : If the predominant suspicion is that it is harmful, it is not permissible to trade with him.
The questioner : I mean a sequential process; if we take this, we might not sell grapes—for example—we sell fertilizer, which he uses to fertilize the grapes so that the grapes grow, and he takes them and makes intoxicants from them; so the process, I mean, can be accepted sequentially, or for example.
The Shaykh : And it is so; because the issue of selling grapes to one who presses them into intoxicants is an example, so infer from that.
The questioner : ... any dealing... dealing generally with disbelievers and open sinners.
The Shaykh : No, no, it is not so.
The questioner : I will give an example, and then you.
The Shaykh : You give an example; if it matches the first example, I will agree with you unconditionally.
The questioner: No, no.
The Shaykh : So what is the benefit?
The questioner : Excuse me, the speech I am saying... any dealing with them; I mean, if I sold him wood.
The Shaykh : I am telling you the same thing, I am telling you the same thing in advance, to save you from giving examples. Do you not know that the Messenger (peace be upon him) died and his armor was pledged with a Jew?
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh : Is that dealing, is it not permissible?
The questioner : It is permissible.
The Shaykh : So what dealing? You do not need to.
The questioner : I mean the dealing in which the predominant suspicion is that it is harmful.
The Shaykh : But, that is it.
Another questioner : Okay; if—for example—we know that, or as is the case in many institutions of the Christians or disbelievers in hospitals, and you know that the owners of this institution, a large part of its revenue goes to Christianizing, and to the enemies of Allah, and to fighting the callers to Islam, and so on.
The Shaykh : Oh teacher, there is no benefit in enumerating examples.
Another questioner : I mean the same thing.
The Shaykh : Take the rule and be at ease.
Another questioner : I mean it is not just an issue of selling.
The Shaykh : Any dealing in which the predominant suspicion is that it involves assisting the disbeliever against the Muslim, this is not permissible.
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