There are foreign companies in the United Arab Emirates that were entirely foreign before the unification of the country, and after its unification, a decision was issued stating that there should be no purely foreign companies.
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The questioner : There is a difference of opinion among the senior scholars on this issue. It is a light matter, but that does not mean that junior students of knowledge like us should not rule on it.
The Shaykh : May Allah bless you. There is blessing in you.
The questioner : May Allah bless you. Do you know, O Shaykh, that there is a foreign company here?
The Shaykh : Yes.
The questioner : It has been foreign for a long time, meaning for about forty years!
The Shaykh : Yes, exactly.
The questioner : So, after the current government and the unification of the Emirates, a decision was issued that there should not be a one-hundred-percent foreign company, but there must be a partnership with fifty-one percent belonging to the citizens, the people of the country, and forty-nine percent belonging to foreigners.
The Shaykh : Yes.
The questioner : So, the government, without these people who are from the country, did not pay any capital or anything, but the government appointed them and told them: You have fifty-one percent, and these Englishmen have forty-nine percent in this large company, and they take agencies.
The Shaykh : Yes.
The questioner : So, the result is that it takes agencies for things from the lawful, such as foodstuffs and lawful beverages, and it also takes agencies for some intoxicants and things that are definitely forbidden. So, the people of the country distanced themselves and said to the Englishmen: As for the share of intoxicants and forbidden things, we have withdrawn, and the profit is yours; nothing of it comes to us. But as for the agencies for foodstuffs and permissible things, the profit will be ours, the people of the country. This matter continued in this state for a long time, and now some of them are leaning toward the good, and it is even suspended now until they know whether this is permissible or not permissible, and whether he should exit the company?
The Shaykh : What Allah willed.
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh : Is the question finished?
The questioner : Yes, this is the question.
The Shaykh : Do I understand from what you mentioned
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh : that the company you described is fifty-fifty?
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh : Between the foreign disbelievers and the Muslim people of the country.
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh : Is it this entire company that imports these forbidden things, and then the profits are distributed according to the percentage you mentioned, or do the disbelievers alone handle the forbidden import? Is my question clear?
The questioner : Yes, I understood the question perfectly, but the company, O Shaykh Nasser.
The Shaykh: Yes.
The questioner : Takes agencies, and you naturally know what agencies are?
The Shaykh: Yes.
The questioner : A very famous brand of beverages, for example: like Pepsi Cola, for example?
The Shaykh : For example, okay.
The questioner : So, it takes the agency for Pepsi Cola in the Emirates, and it takes the agency for, for example, such-and-such biscuits or the agency for such-and-such beverage. From the agencies, the agency for the brand of intoxicants, which is also famous, is manufactured abroad, but they are its agents here?
The Shaykh: All right.
The questioner : This is the company's general scope, so it takes this forbidden and that lawful?
The Shaykh : Fine, but.
The questioner : The people of the country said that the profit from the lawful agencies comes from them, and the profit from the forbidden agencies belongs to the Englishmen.
The Shaykh : Yes, do the Muslims participate in such agencies in assistance and cooperation?
The questioner : No, they do not cooperate or assist.
The Shaykh : Or do the disbelievers take charge of those agencies alone?
The questioner : Yes, but in the name of the company, O Shaykh, the disbelievers take charge of those agencies alone.
The Shaykh : Yes.
The questioner : But it is one company.
The Shaykh : No problem, but if the company is such that each person takes on a task.
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh : Meaning, for example, two partners.
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh : With capital, they cooperated, this is half the money and this is half the money.
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh : And one of the partners took charge of the forbidden, and the other took charge of the lawful.
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh : So, how is the partnership here then?
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh : Is it a nominal partnership or a practical one in that case?
The questioner : It is more nominal than practical for one reason:
The Shaykh: Yes.
The questioner : That these people of the country did not pay a single cent, but when the government decision came out that the Englishmen should not have a one-hundred-percent company, it was justified for these merchants from the country to be the owners of the fifty-one percent, but they did not start with capital with the Englishmen; this did not happen at all.
The Shaykh : Okay, did the state not pay capital?
The questioner : Definitely, it paid.
The Shaykh : That is it!
The questioner : Definitely, the state paid.
The Shaykh : Ah, so if the company were dissolved, would it return this capital one day?
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh : To whom does this capital return?
The questioner : Yes, it will return to these people whom the government appointed.
The Shaykh : Is that how it is?
The questioner : It is a gift, as if it is a gift from the government to these merchants.
The Shaykh : I understand then that the company is a formal, superficial one?!
The questioner : Yes, that is the correct view, but the profit, the profit in the end goes fifty-one percent to the citizens, the merchants of the country, and forty-nine percent to the Englishmen.
The Shaykh : Now, it appears to me, and Allah knows best, what the conclusion is:
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh : If the Muslims take the profit according to the mentioned percentage of fifty-one?
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh : They do not own the excess over fifty-one?
The questioner : Yes, that is correct.
The Shaykh : And this is spent on public facilities so that their profit remains pure and lawful.
The questioner : I did not understand what comes after this public spending?!
The Shaykh : You know, I think, it is not the banks! The facilities.
The questioner : The facilities, yes?
The Shaykh : Yes, I think you remember with me.
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh : That those who, unfortunately, deal with interest-based banks.
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh : And they deposit their money in them.
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh : And they have what is called by a name other than its true name, which is: interest.
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh : And it is riba, and Allah - Mighty and Majestic - says:[Al-Baqarah 2:279].
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh : So, if the one who deals in riba or the one who deals with banks repents, he has his capital, so what does he do with this riba called interest?!
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh : Here there are two exits. The first: that he leaves this riba for the people of riba.
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh : And the other: that it is taken and spent on public facilities.
The questioner : Paving the streets and restrooms and these matters.
The Shaykh : Like this.
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh : Meaning, so that no specific person benefits, even if he is poor.
The questioner : Yes, I understood, but do you mean the half that came from the intoxicants and this?
The Shaykh : I do not mean the profit that comes to them in excess of the profits of the liquor sellers, if this expression is correct.
The questioner : Yes, no, they agreed, O Shaykh, they agreed that the fifty-one percent is entirely pure from the lawful agencies, and nothing at all comes to it from the agency of intoxicants.
The Shaykh : Then, then your previous question has received the answer.
The questioner : And what is it?
The Shaykh : And it is that the entire profit is lawful for these Muslims.
The questioner : Yes, but the question is, is there any doubt or prohibition in the fact that the name of the company and the reputation of the company to which these people of the country, the monotheists, belong.
The Shaykh: Yes.
The questioner : Is the one that acts as the agent for these intoxicants and distributes them, even if those in charge are the disbelieving partners?
The Shaykh : But this name is supposed to be preferred in the minds of all those who deal with it.
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh : It appears to me, is that not so?
The questioner : What is supposed to be?
The Shaykh : That it is distinct and known in the minds of all those who deal with it.
The questioner : Which is the difference between the forbidden agencies and the lawful ones?
The Shaykh : Yes, that is what I mean!
The questioner : This is established in the minds of everyone, even the disbelievers.
The Shaykh : Yes, that is what I am saying.
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh : And therefore, there is no harm in terms of the name, as long as the name is distinct in the minds.
The questioner : Yes, good, if Allah wills.
The Shaykh : Good, you.
The questioner : Meaning, what I understand from your words, O Your Eminence: that as long as there is no complete restriction in the profit and there is no type of intermingling.
The Shaykh : Yes, exactly.
The questioner : Then this profit is permissible.
The Shaykh : Yes, and although we hope.
The questioner : The intermingling is determined by the percentage of the intermingled money and spent on public facilities?!
The Shaykh : Yes, if there is haram money that enters the halal money.
The questioner : Yes, that is what is estimated and spent on public facilities.
The Shaykh : Yes, exactly.
The questioner : Good, if Allah wills.
The Shaykh : And if we said.
The questioner : We are detailing this issue, the issue of the presence of polytheists in the Arabian Peninsula.
The Shaykh: Yes.
The questioner : Does anything of that connect to it?
The Shaykh : No, the matter, unfortunately, is far from research today due to the existing laws.
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh : And there is something more important than what we hope the authorities in all Arab countries will do.
The questioner : Yes, yes.
The Shaykh : Yes, indeed, and because we see that it is obligatory for the government not to allow these foreigners, even if they are independent in name and in fact.
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh : That they not allow them to import these forbidden things.
The questioner : That they not allow them.
The Shaykh : This is the principle, but unfortunately, the discussion was not about this.
The questioner : Yes, the issue is with the rulers whose consciences have awakened.
The Shaykh : That is it, and may Allah bless them all.
The questioner : May Allah reward you with good, O Shaykh, and may Allah bless us through you.
The Shaykh : May Allah preserve you, my brother.
The questioner : May Allah honor you. Peace be upon you, Doctor...
The Shaykh : What Allah willed, and peace be upon him. How is he doing?
The questioner : And I am afraid you may have forgotten me?!
The Shaykh : No, no, I have not forgotten you. I was waiting to see you, and I heard a tape of yours in America, and a tape was sent to me.
The questioner : ... Write them the answer...
The Shaykh : Yes, I don't know, they called me but did not take the answer?
The questioner : Yes, they sent you a letter and did not receive your answer, and if you wanted to...
The Shaykh : No, by Allah, now after the covenant, but in my opinion, one of them called and I gave him the answer that Shaykh 'Umar is beating on cold iron and is far away from the Salafi methodology in spreading the da'wah and in acting upon it, and that he was afflicted with contradicting his saying (peace be upon him):.
The questioner : Yes, yes, may Allah bless you.
The Shaykh : And may He reward you.
The questioner : If it is not a burden upon your excellence, meaning spending some time in responding to this so-called one, it affects the da'wah in America greatly, it is very great, so I hope that one of the young men helps you to recall the incident and respond to it again in your way, for in that is great good... and they are extremely eager to hear your words!
The Shaykh : Yes, how I wish they would call me and resend their question, so that I could give them the answer as I am giving you the answer now in summary; I would have given them the answer with some detail, because it is very difficult for me to clear my mind and soul for writing the answer, whereas what I improvise is easy for me. So perhaps you could write to them to resend the question, because it is difficult for me to look for it on my end.
The questioner : And do you have present in your mind what the brothers sent of their questions?
The Shaykh : I have it in mind to some extent, but...
The questioner : Should they send it from their end anew?
The Shaykh : Yes, and they should call me specifically after a day or two.
The questioner : Good, if Allah wills, but frankly, on this telephone, they cannot hear you clearly...?
The Shaykh : May Allah bless you, they record it on their end.
The questioner : Yes, good, if Allah wills, meaning they send the question in two or three written lines and do not delay you.
The Shaykh : Okay, what is the difference between recording the voice and having a tape on their end?
The questioner : They are there...
The Shaykh : Glory be to Allah!!
The questioner : Yes, by Allah, and this person keeps the lecture for you, and the written question has great benefits in addition to the tape, O Shaykh. And the tape, when your excellence spoke... I was among the attendees, glory be to Allah the Great, a wonderful style, words as if you had not heard them before, and the tape is available and they listen to it.
The Shaykh: Yes.
The questioner : Is... or is it different?
The Shaykh : No, it is the same.
The questioner : Meaning, call them and they send it, it is the same?
The Shaykh : But.
The questioner : Good, if Allah wills.
The Shaykh : Good, you see.
The questioner : May Allah bless you, and do not forget us in your supplication.
The Shaykh : I wish you success wherever you settle and wherever you travel.
The questioner : If Allah wills, may Allah bless you.
The Shaykh : May Allah preserve you.
The questioner : May Allah reward you with good and may Allah bless you.
The Shaykh : May Allah keep you safe and preserve you as well.
The questioner : I actually have here, the truth is...
The Shaykh : If Allah wills, we ask Allah for happiness for us and for him in this world and the Hereafter, and for all our loving brothers.
The questioner : O Allah, amen, O Lord. May Allah reward you with good, and forgive us for the length.
The Shaykh : Welcome, you have benefited.
The Shaykh : May Allah bless you. There is blessing in you.
The questioner : May Allah bless you. Do you know, O Shaykh, that there is a foreign company here?
The Shaykh : Yes.
The questioner : It has been foreign for a long time, meaning for about forty years!
The Shaykh : Yes, exactly.
The questioner : So, after the current government and the unification of the Emirates, a decision was issued that there should not be a one-hundred-percent foreign company, but there must be a partnership with fifty-one percent belonging to the citizens, the people of the country, and forty-nine percent belonging to foreigners.
The Shaykh : Yes.
The questioner : So, the government, without these people who are from the country, did not pay any capital or anything, but the government appointed them and told them: You have fifty-one percent, and these Englishmen have forty-nine percent in this large company, and they take agencies.
The Shaykh : Yes.
The questioner : So, the result is that it takes agencies for things from the lawful, such as foodstuffs and lawful beverages, and it also takes agencies for some intoxicants and things that are definitely forbidden. So, the people of the country distanced themselves and said to the Englishmen: As for the share of intoxicants and forbidden things, we have withdrawn, and the profit is yours; nothing of it comes to us. But as for the agencies for foodstuffs and permissible things, the profit will be ours, the people of the country. This matter continued in this state for a long time, and now some of them are leaning toward the good, and it is even suspended now until they know whether this is permissible or not permissible, and whether he should exit the company?
The Shaykh : What Allah willed.
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh : Is the question finished?
The questioner : Yes, this is the question.
The Shaykh : Do I understand from what you mentioned
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh : that the company you described is fifty-fifty?
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh : Between the foreign disbelievers and the Muslim people of the country.
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh : Is it this entire company that imports these forbidden things, and then the profits are distributed according to the percentage you mentioned, or do the disbelievers alone handle the forbidden import? Is my question clear?
The questioner : Yes, I understood the question perfectly, but the company, O Shaykh Nasser.
The Shaykh: Yes.
The questioner : Takes agencies, and you naturally know what agencies are?
The Shaykh: Yes.
The questioner : A very famous brand of beverages, for example: like Pepsi Cola, for example?
The Shaykh : For example, okay.
The questioner : So, it takes the agency for Pepsi Cola in the Emirates, and it takes the agency for, for example, such-and-such biscuits or the agency for such-and-such beverage. From the agencies, the agency for the brand of intoxicants, which is also famous, is manufactured abroad, but they are its agents here?
The Shaykh: All right.
The questioner : This is the company's general scope, so it takes this forbidden and that lawful?
The Shaykh : Fine, but.
The questioner : The people of the country said that the profit from the lawful agencies comes from them, and the profit from the forbidden agencies belongs to the Englishmen.
The Shaykh : Yes, do the Muslims participate in such agencies in assistance and cooperation?
The questioner : No, they do not cooperate or assist.
The Shaykh : Or do the disbelievers take charge of those agencies alone?
The questioner : Yes, but in the name of the company, O Shaykh, the disbelievers take charge of those agencies alone.
The Shaykh : Yes.
The questioner : But it is one company.
The Shaykh : No problem, but if the company is such that each person takes on a task.
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh : Meaning, for example, two partners.
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh : With capital, they cooperated, this is half the money and this is half the money.
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh : And one of the partners took charge of the forbidden, and the other took charge of the lawful.
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh : So, how is the partnership here then?
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh : Is it a nominal partnership or a practical one in that case?
The questioner : It is more nominal than practical for one reason:
The Shaykh: Yes.
The questioner : That these people of the country did not pay a single cent, but when the government decision came out that the Englishmen should not have a one-hundred-percent company, it was justified for these merchants from the country to be the owners of the fifty-one percent, but they did not start with capital with the Englishmen; this did not happen at all.
The Shaykh : Okay, did the state not pay capital?
The questioner : Definitely, it paid.
The Shaykh : That is it!
The questioner : Definitely, the state paid.
The Shaykh : Ah, so if the company were dissolved, would it return this capital one day?
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh : To whom does this capital return?
The questioner : Yes, it will return to these people whom the government appointed.
The Shaykh : Is that how it is?
The questioner : It is a gift, as if it is a gift from the government to these merchants.
The Shaykh : I understand then that the company is a formal, superficial one?!
The questioner : Yes, that is the correct view, but the profit, the profit in the end goes fifty-one percent to the citizens, the merchants of the country, and forty-nine percent to the Englishmen.
The Shaykh : Now, it appears to me, and Allah knows best, what the conclusion is:
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh : If the Muslims take the profit according to the mentioned percentage of fifty-one?
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh : They do not own the excess over fifty-one?
The questioner : Yes, that is correct.
The Shaykh : And this is spent on public facilities so that their profit remains pure and lawful.
The questioner : I did not understand what comes after this public spending?!
The Shaykh : You know, I think, it is not the banks! The facilities.
The questioner : The facilities, yes?
The Shaykh : Yes, I think you remember with me.
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh : That those who, unfortunately, deal with interest-based banks.
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh : And they deposit their money in them.
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh : And they have what is called by a name other than its true name, which is: interest.
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh : And it is riba, and Allah - Mighty and Majestic - says:
But if you repent, you may have your principal - [thus] you do no wrong, nor are you wronged.
وَإِنْ تُبْتُمْ فَلَكُمْ رُءُوسُ أَمْوَالِكُمْ لَا تَظْلِمُونَ وَلَا تُظْلَمُونَThe questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh : So, if the one who deals in riba or the one who deals with banks repents, he has his capital, so what does he do with this riba called interest?!
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh : Here there are two exits. The first: that he leaves this riba for the people of riba.
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh : And the other: that it is taken and spent on public facilities.
The questioner : Paving the streets and restrooms and these matters.
The Shaykh : Like this.
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh : Meaning, so that no specific person benefits, even if he is poor.
The questioner : Yes, I understood, but do you mean the half that came from the intoxicants and this?
The Shaykh : I do not mean the profit that comes to them in excess of the profits of the liquor sellers, if this expression is correct.
The questioner : Yes, no, they agreed, O Shaykh, they agreed that the fifty-one percent is entirely pure from the lawful agencies, and nothing at all comes to it from the agency of intoxicants.
The Shaykh : Then, then your previous question has received the answer.
The questioner : And what is it?
The Shaykh : And it is that the entire profit is lawful for these Muslims.
The questioner : Yes, but the question is, is there any doubt or prohibition in the fact that the name of the company and the reputation of the company to which these people of the country, the monotheists, belong.
The Shaykh: Yes.
The questioner : Is the one that acts as the agent for these intoxicants and distributes them, even if those in charge are the disbelieving partners?
The Shaykh : But this name is supposed to be preferred in the minds of all those who deal with it.
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh : It appears to me, is that not so?
The questioner : What is supposed to be?
The Shaykh : That it is distinct and known in the minds of all those who deal with it.
The questioner : Which is the difference between the forbidden agencies and the lawful ones?
The Shaykh : Yes, that is what I mean!
The questioner : This is established in the minds of everyone, even the disbelievers.
The Shaykh : Yes, that is what I am saying.
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh : And therefore, there is no harm in terms of the name, as long as the name is distinct in the minds.
The questioner : Yes, good, if Allah wills.
The Shaykh : Good, you.
The questioner : Meaning, what I understand from your words, O Your Eminence: that as long as there is no complete restriction in the profit and there is no type of intermingling.
The Shaykh : Yes, exactly.
The questioner : Then this profit is permissible.
The Shaykh : Yes, and although we hope.
The questioner : The intermingling is determined by the percentage of the intermingled money and spent on public facilities?!
The Shaykh : Yes, if there is haram money that enters the halal money.
The questioner : Yes, that is what is estimated and spent on public facilities.
The Shaykh : Yes, exactly.
The questioner : Good, if Allah wills.
The Shaykh : And if we said.
The questioner : We are detailing this issue, the issue of the presence of polytheists in the Arabian Peninsula.
The Shaykh: Yes.
The questioner : Does anything of that connect to it?
The Shaykh : No, the matter, unfortunately, is far from research today due to the existing laws.
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh : And there is something more important than what we hope the authorities in all Arab countries will do.
The questioner : Yes, yes.
The Shaykh : Yes, indeed, and because we see that it is obligatory for the government not to allow these foreigners, even if they are independent in name and in fact.
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh : That they not allow them to import these forbidden things.
The questioner : That they not allow them.
The Shaykh : This is the principle, but unfortunately, the discussion was not about this.
The questioner : Yes, the issue is with the rulers whose consciences have awakened.
The Shaykh : That is it, and may Allah bless them all.
The questioner : May Allah reward you with good, O Shaykh, and may Allah bless us through you.
The Shaykh : May Allah preserve you, my brother.
The questioner : May Allah honor you. Peace be upon you, Doctor...
The Shaykh : What Allah willed, and peace be upon him. How is he doing?
The questioner : And I am afraid you may have forgotten me?!
The Shaykh : No, no, I have not forgotten you. I was waiting to see you, and I heard a tape of yours in America, and a tape was sent to me.
The questioner : ... Write them the answer...
The Shaykh : Yes, I don't know, they called me but did not take the answer?
The questioner : Yes, they sent you a letter and did not receive your answer, and if you wanted to...
The Shaykh : No, by Allah, now after the covenant, but in my opinion, one of them called and I gave him the answer that Shaykh 'Umar is beating on cold iron and is far away from the Salafi methodology in spreading the da'wah and in acting upon it, and that he was afflicted with contradicting his saying (peace be upon him):
But you are a people who are in a hurry.
ولكنَّكم قومٌ تستعجلونThe questioner : Yes, yes, may Allah bless you.
The Shaykh : And may He reward you.
The questioner : If it is not a burden upon your excellence, meaning spending some time in responding to this so-called one, it affects the da'wah in America greatly, it is very great, so I hope that one of the young men helps you to recall the incident and respond to it again in your way, for in that is great good... and they are extremely eager to hear your words!
The Shaykh : Yes, how I wish they would call me and resend their question, so that I could give them the answer as I am giving you the answer now in summary; I would have given them the answer with some detail, because it is very difficult for me to clear my mind and soul for writing the answer, whereas what I improvise is easy for me. So perhaps you could write to them to resend the question, because it is difficult for me to look for it on my end.
The questioner : And do you have present in your mind what the brothers sent of their questions?
The Shaykh : I have it in mind to some extent, but...
The questioner : Should they send it from their end anew?
The Shaykh : Yes, and they should call me specifically after a day or two.
The questioner : Good, if Allah wills, but frankly, on this telephone, they cannot hear you clearly...?
The Shaykh : May Allah bless you, they record it on their end.
The questioner : Yes, good, if Allah wills, meaning they send the question in two or three written lines and do not delay you.
The Shaykh : Okay, what is the difference between recording the voice and having a tape on their end?
The questioner : They are there...
The Shaykh : Glory be to Allah!!
The questioner : Yes, by Allah, and this person keeps the lecture for you, and the written question has great benefits in addition to the tape, O Shaykh. And the tape, when your excellence spoke... I was among the attendees, glory be to Allah the Great, a wonderful style, words as if you had not heard them before, and the tape is available and they listen to it.
The Shaykh: Yes.
The questioner : Is... or is it different?
The Shaykh : No, it is the same.
The questioner : Meaning, call them and they send it, it is the same?
The Shaykh : But.
The questioner : Good, if Allah wills.
The Shaykh : Good, you see.
The questioner : May Allah bless you, and do not forget us in your supplication.
The Shaykh : I wish you success wherever you settle and wherever you travel.
The questioner : If Allah wills, may Allah bless you.
The Shaykh : May Allah preserve you.
The questioner : May Allah reward you with good and may Allah bless you.
The Shaykh : May Allah keep you safe and preserve you as well.
The questioner : I actually have here, the truth is...
The Shaykh : If Allah wills, we ask Allah for happiness for us and for him in this world and the Hereafter, and for all our loving brothers.
The questioner : O Allah, amen, O Lord. May Allah reward you with good, and forgive us for the length.
The Shaykh : Welcome, you have benefited.
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