Fatwa ID: 07428

 

 

Answered by: Maulana Ubaidur Rahman

Question:

 

Someone I know works at everyone active sports centre with multiple facilities) where majority of the income of the facilities are likely to be haram due to the fact that many haram activities take place in there. Now I’m aware that the person received a work phone from his company that was fully paid for by the company and he used this phone for another business that was selling completely halal products.

 

The reason I ask is because his savings had stolen money and haram money and he once sold something to the company and that thing was bought with his savings so I’m wondering would the profits from the business be halal for me to consume if he invited me over to his place for food?

 

 

In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful

 

Answer:

 

The Prophet PBUH mentions in a hadeeth,

 

عَنِ ابْنِ عُمَرَ، أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ـ صلى الله عليه وسلم ـ قَالَ ‏“‏ لاَ يَبِيعُ بَعْضُكُمْ عَلى بَيْعِ بَعْضٍ¹

 

It was narrated from Ibn ‘Umar that the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said:

 

“Let one of you not undersell another.”

 

If anything which is stolen or has been mixed in with haraam items then it pollutes all of the wealth. It becomes infected by effect of the haraam wealth.

 

Anything associated with haraam activities becomes haraam. So, any money earnt or made through haram activities is haram, haraam the way it has been made and haraam for it to be consumed and to derive benefit from it.

 

The work phone is a by-product of the haraam source of wealth, and the phone was used to sell halaal products.

 

The profits from the business, when the profits came about from

 

• stolen money (his savings) which

 

• accompanied with the haram money

 

 

they both were used to purchase an item which was sold to the company.

 

He purchased something with his savings. His savings had haraam money in there. He bought an item using his savings which was infected with haram money. The profits were made from the haraam products.

 

Therefore, the profit would be haraam, as that which was funnelled into the company was haram and hence the outcome and benefit from that product being sold and the benefits received from the selling of that haraam product would also be haraam. Using his savings which were already littered with haraam money, he then purchased the item from his company again using his savings which were already containing haraam in it.

 

The content and the outcome are all haram. Therefore, it would not be halaal for you to consume food at his dwelling when he would invite you over to benefit from his profit as the profit which is there comes from the haram income which he acquired.

 

 

 

²Bahr Ur Raiq, Page 135, Volume 6, Maktabatus Shaamilla.

 

³ Bahr ur Raiq, Page 209, Volume 6, Maktabatus Shaamila.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Only Allah knows best

Written by Maulana Ubaidur Rahman.

Checked and approved by Mufti Mohammed Tosir Miah.

Darul Ifta Birmingham.