What is the ruling on one who gives books to a charitable project, which sells them and makes a profit, and then wants to put the capital in the project and the profit in another project?
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The questioner : O Shaykh, what is the ruling on selling if a person gives you money or books to carry out a charitable project, and then you take them and sell them for an amount that includes a profit, and you use the amount in the same project for which you were given it, and you use the increase in another charitable project?
The Shaykh : Do you mean that you disposed of them?
The questioner : Yes.
The Shaykh : And you made a profit?
The questioner : Yes.
The Shaykh : You want to put the capital in the specified project, and the rest in another project?
The questioner : Yes.
The Shaykh : First: whoever is given something for a specific project is not permitted to dispose of it at all; he must spend it in what he was authorized to spend it in. This is because the agency is a restricted agency; the agent is restricted to what he was appointed for, and he does not add or subtract.
Second: if it is assumed that the man did dispose of it and made a profit, it is obligatory to spend the profit in the first project that was specified by the one who handed over the money, because the profit follows the principal. It is not permissible to spend it in another project except with the permission of its owner. Yes.
The Shaykh : Do you mean that you disposed of them?
The questioner : Yes.
The Shaykh : And you made a profit?
The questioner : Yes.
The Shaykh : You want to put the capital in the specified project, and the rest in another project?
The questioner : Yes.
The Shaykh : First: whoever is given something for a specific project is not permitted to dispose of it at all; he must spend it in what he was authorized to spend it in. This is because the agency is a restricted agency; the agent is restricted to what he was appointed for, and he does not add or subtract.
Second: if it is assumed that the man did dispose of it and made a profit, it is obligatory to spend the profit in the first project that was specified by the one who handed over the money, because the profit follows the principal. It is not permissible to spend it in another project except with the permission of its owner. Yes.