If a young man refuses to sell forbidden items that his father orders him to sell, such as televisions, video equipment, some musical instruments, and gold watches in a shop, is this considered
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The questioner : May the Shaykh be respected, my father has a shop for selling electrical appliances such as televisions, video equipment, and some musical instruments, as well as gold watches. He asks me to sit in it and sell, but I refuse. Is this considered undutifulness to parents? And what is obligatory for me?
The Shaykh : Yes, this is not undutifulness to parents if you refrain from doing the forbidden thing that your father does.
But it is obligatory for you to advise him and say: This is forbidden, and its earnings are forbidden. If he reforms, that is what is required. If he does not reform,
then the sin is upon him, and you have a reward, because Allah the Exalted said to His Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him):[Al-Baqarah 2:272].
And if he says: Sit in the shop to sell, do not sell the items that are used in a forbidden manner. Sell the items that people generally use for permissible things, such as radios and recorders. As for video and television, do not sell them, because most of those who buy these items use them for forbidden things. Yes.
The Shaykh : Yes, this is not undutifulness to parents if you refrain from doing the forbidden thing that your father does.
But it is obligatory for you to advise him and say: This is forbidden, and its earnings are forbidden. If he reforms, that is what is required. If he does not reform,
then the sin is upon him, and you have a reward, because Allah the Exalted said to His Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him):
Not upon you, [O Muhammad], is [responsibility for] their guidance, but Allah guides whom He wills.
لَيْسَ عَلَيْكَ هُدَاهُمْ وَلَكِنَّ اللَّهَ يَهْدِي مَنْ يَشَاءُAnd if he says: Sit in the shop to sell, do not sell the items that are used in a forbidden manner. Sell the items that people generally use for permissible things, such as radios and recorders. As for video and television, do not sell them, because most of those who buy these items use them for forbidden things. Yes.