Ruling on smuggling goods into the country without the state's permission

The listener (A. S. M.), an Egyptian residing in Qana al-Waqf, sent a message to the program stating: Some people are smuggling certain goods into the country, even though the state prohibits the import of these goods, namely fruit. They sell them to some individuals, who buy them and then sell them to fruit merchants at three times the purchase price, or double the purchase price. The merchants, in turn, sell them to individuals at double the purchase price. Thus, due to the intermediation of the individuals and the merchants, one kilogram reaches the consumer at four times the price paid by the individuals who smuggled it into the country. It is known that the price of the kilogram was equal to the current price before the import ban. Are the earnings of those who act as intermediaries between the smugglers and the merchants, as well as the profits taken by the merchants, forbidden or lawful? If these earnings are forbidden, how should they be disposed of, and what is the religious ruling on earning such money? Please inform us, may Allah reward you.
Answer: If the state has prohibited the import of items for the benefit of the Muslims and the people, and because their import harms the people in their religion or their worldly affairs, then it is obligatory for the people to comply with what the state has done, because it aims at the public interest and aims to protect the people from what harms them, and to protect the Muslims from what harms them. Therefore, smuggling that contradicts what the state has stipulated, causes problems between the people and the state, and leads to sin, is not permissible. It is obligatory for the people to comply and to assist the state in preventing what should be prevented and in maintaining what should be maintained, because this involves cooperation in what is in the interest of everyone.
As for the smuggling that some people engage in regarding forbidden things, such as smuggling intoxicants or what Allah has forbidden, this is more severe and greater. Even if the state were to ... with it, it is not permissible to bring it into the country, nor is it permissible to cooperate in doing so; because it harms the society in its religion. Therefore, it is not permissible for a Muslim to cause Muslims to fall into what Allah has forbidden them, such as intoxicants or smoking, or anything else that Allah (Mighty and Majestic) has forbidden. Rather, one must help in preventing it. If the state did not prevent it, how much more so if it did prevent it? The obligatory thing is that we help it in that, and stand with it in preventing everything that harms Muslims, and in preventing everything that Allah has forbidden; because this falls under the category of cooperating in righteousness and piety. Yes.