Void Transactions
Issue No.1752- Transactions in the following cases are void:1) To sell and purchase original najis things, i.e., things which are originally najis, like urine, faeces and blood, as an obligatory precaution. Therefore, it is not permissible as an obligatory precaution to sell and purchase najis manure, however there is no harm in using them. Though the sale and purchase of blood which is used to save the life of the injured and the sick in our time, is permissible. Similarly, the sale and purchase of hunting and guard dogs are permitted.2) Sale and purchase of usurped properties. [There would be no problem if the owner permits the transaction]3) Sale and purchase of things which are usually utilised for haram acts, like musical instruments and gambling instruments.4) Sale and purchase of things that among people, are not considered to possess the value of transaction, though they may be of some value to a particular person, like many insects.5) Any transaction which involves usury.6) A transaction which involves fraud or adulteration and the buyer is not informed about it, like selling milk mixed with water, or oil mixed with fat or another thing. This act is called cheating (ghish) or fraud, and it is considered as one of the major sins. It has been narrated that the Holy Prophet of Islam (ṣ) said, “If a person cheats the Muslims in a transaction or harms them, or deceives them, he is not one of us. And when a person cheats his fellow Muslim Allah deprives him of His blessing in that person’s livelihood, closes the means of his earnings and leaves him to himself ”.7) No one can take the possession of isolated lands by registering and it is not permissible to purchase or sell them unless one prepares them for cultivation.
