He says that his father is a buyer and seller in a shop, and he sometimes helps him with the selling. However, if a needy poor person comes and he is in the shop, he gives him what he can without his father's permission, knowing that he says in his heart, "O Allah, make it on my father's intention." Is this charity permissible or not?
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The questioner : He says that his father is a buyer and seller in a shop, and he sometimes helps him with the selling. However, if a needy poor person comes and he is in the shop, he gives him what he can without his father's permission, knowing that he says in his heart, "O Allah, make it on my father's intention." Is this charity permissible or not?
The Shaykh : This charity is permissible if you know that your father does not object to it.
The questioner : Yes.
The Shaykh : However, if you know that your father objects to it and is not pleased that you give charity, then it is not permissible for you to give charity from any of his wealth, because the wealth of a Muslim is not permissible except with his willing consent. This issue and its like do not fall outside of three cases: either we know the consent of the owner of the wealth.
The questioner : Yes.
The Shaykh : In that case, there is no harm. Or we know his lack of consent, and that he is a stingy man who is not pleased to give charity from any of his wealth; in that case, it is not permissible. Or we are in doubt; the original ruling is to respect the wealth and that a person should not give charity from it unless he knows the consent of its owner or it is predominant in his mind.
The questioner : Yes.
The Shaykh : Yes.
The questioner : Now, if the son, for example, is a partner with his father in the wealth? The son, for example, pays if he has a salary or income, he pays it to... his father.
The Shaykh : If he is a partner, and he intends it from his own wealth, such that it is deducted from him and taken from the profit that belongs to him, then there is no harm; it is his wealth.
The questioner : Yes.
The Shaykh : And if he intends it from the whole, its ruling is as mentioned before.
The questioner : Yes.
The Shaykh : Yes.
The Shaykh : This charity is permissible if you know that your father does not object to it.
The questioner : Yes.
The Shaykh : However, if you know that your father objects to it and is not pleased that you give charity, then it is not permissible for you to give charity from any of his wealth, because the wealth of a Muslim is not permissible except with his willing consent. This issue and its like do not fall outside of three cases: either we know the consent of the owner of the wealth.
The questioner : Yes.
The Shaykh : In that case, there is no harm. Or we know his lack of consent, and that he is a stingy man who is not pleased to give charity from any of his wealth; in that case, it is not permissible. Or we are in doubt; the original ruling is to respect the wealth and that a person should not give charity from it unless he knows the consent of its owner or it is predominant in his mind.
The questioner : Yes.
The Shaykh : Yes.
The questioner : Now, if the son, for example, is a partner with his father in the wealth? The son, for example, pays if he has a salary or income, he pays it to... his father.
The Shaykh : If he is a partner, and he intends it from his own wealth, such that it is deducted from him and taken from the profit that belongs to him, then there is no harm; it is his wealth.
The questioner : Yes.
The Shaykh : And if he intends it from the whole, its ruling is as mentioned before.
The questioner : Yes.
The Shaykh : Yes.