Saturday, June 22, 2013

Fathwa - His job is based on a car he bought with ill-gottenmoney

Question
Salam aleykoum. I cheated on the examination of the driver's license
and I paidit with illicit money. I alsobought my car with illicit
money. Now I realize my work with my car and I got it working thanks
to the fact that I have a driving license. Is what I am in sin when I
drive? and the money I make at my job is illegal? Because I go every
day to my work with my car and I got this job due to the fact that I
dipose driver's license. Baraka Allah oufikoum
Answer
All perfect praise be to Allaah, The Lord of the Worlds. I testify
that there is none worthy of worship except Allaah, and that
MuhammadisHis slave and Messenger.
If you drive well and do the work entrusted to you properly, then you
are not sinful for driving the car or for doing your work as we
clarified in Fatwa 87821.
Also, it is not forbidden for you to benefit from your car or from
anything else on which you spent the forbidden money, but you are
obligated to repent from cheating and you should become acquitted from
the ill-gotten money which you have consumed or which you possess at
hand.
If you took the ill-gotten money from specific people, then you have
to give it back to its owners,and if the money is from Riba
)usury/interest( or the like, then you should spend what you still
possess of ill-gotten money in the general interest of the Muslims and
give it to the poor and needy so that your remaining money will be
lawful. By doing this, youwill be acquitted from sin. In addition, you
mustregret what you had done and be determined not to do that again,
and seek forgiveness for it. For more benefit, please refer to Fataawa
86527and 169205.
Allaah Knows best.

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