{"id":12637,"date":"2020-01-15T16:51:09","date_gmt":"2020-01-15T16:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/?p=12637"},"modified":"2020-01-21T23:19:01","modified_gmt":"2020-01-21T23:19:01","slug":"can-you-secretly-take-back-money-that-you-unknowingly-contributed-to-haram","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/can-you-secretly-take-back-money-that-you-unknowingly-contributed-to-haram\/","title":{"rendered":"Can you secretly take back money that you unknowingly contributed to haram?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: right;\">\n\t<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\"><strong>Fatwa ID: 03131<\/strong><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\"><strong>Answered by:&nbsp;<\/strong> <strong>Shaykh Umer Khan\u200b<\/strong><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\"><strong><u>Question:<\/u><\/strong><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\">A question from a sister: If she was asked to pay money for a gift, and she enquired what gift it is then it is told to her that it is an idol, and she gives them money, and realize later that she did a big sin, then she cannot ask directly for her money back and ask to buy chocolate or chips, and does taubah and she feels like to take the money from the purse of lady demand money because they did not buy chocolate or chips, her question is can she take back the money from her purse without her knowing<\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\"><strong><u>Answer:<\/u><\/strong><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">\n\t<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\"><strong>In The Name Of Allah, The Most-Merciful, The Most Kind<\/strong><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\">Taking back the money from the other woman&#39;s purse without her knowledge would be considered stealing, which is impermissible. The Prophet \ufdfa is reported to have said: &quot;Indeed, All\u0101h does not wipe out an evil deed with another evil deed. Instead, He wipes out evil deeds with good deeds. Indeed, the repulsive does not wipe out the repulsive&quot; (Musnad of Im\u0101m A\u1e25mad, 1\/387). One of the principles in Isl\u0101mic law is &quot; \u0644\u0627 \u0636\u0631\u0631 \u0648\u0644\u0627 \u0636\u0631\u0627\u0631&quot;, meaning that no harm shall be met by harm. Part of this principle is that there should be no counter harm in response to harm.<\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\">The woman should instead continue to make tawbah (repent) and perform istighf\u0101r (seek forgiveness from All\u0101h) and displace the mistake by engaging in other good deeds.<\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\">Only Allah knows best<\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\">Written by Shaykh Umer Khan<\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\">Checked and approved by Mufti Mohammed Tosir Miah<\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\">Darul Ifta Birmingham<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fatwa ID: 03131 Answered by:&nbsp; Shaykh Umer Khan\u200b Question: A question from a sister: If she was asked to pay money for a gift, and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12637"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12637"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12637\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12743,"href":"http:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12637\/revisions\/12743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}