The Creed of Compassion-Islamic Teachings & Answering Doctrinal Misconceptions

Issue No.1758- Transactions of all sorts on intoxicating beverages are haram and void.

Issue No.1759- Purchase and sale of usurped property is also haram and void, and the seller should return the money to the buyer, but the buyer possesses no right to give that property to someone other than its rightful owner, and in case he does not know the owner, he should act according to the Mujtahid's view (or his representative).

Issue No.1760- If a buyer intends not to pay the price of the commodity from the beginning or intends [from the beginning] to pay for it from haram money, the transaction would be void as an obligatory precaution. However, if he does not intend so at the beginning and later pays from haram money, the transaction is correct; one should make the payment from halal money however, since haram money does not suffice.

Issue No.1761- Purchase and sale of instruments of haram entertainment, even small musical instruments, are haram, except for instruments with both Haram and Halal use, or when they are toys and are not considered instruments of haram entertainment.

Issue No.1762- It is permissible to buy or sell radios, televisions and other items which have considerable mubāḥ and lawful benefits. However, if something which has halal benefits is sold to a person who will definitely use it for haram purposes (e.g., selling grapes to a wine factory), this type of transaction is considered haram.

Issue No.1763- It is not permissible to make, purchase and sell statues. However, there is no harm in purchasing and selling embossed things. Moreover, there is no harm in selling and purchasing dolls which are used as toys.

Issue No.1764- It is haram and void to purchase and sell things which have been acquired by means of gambling, theft, or invalid transactions, and it is not permissible to make use of them, and in case a person purchases such items, they should be returned to its original owner. And in case he does not know the owner, he should act according to the Mujtahid’s view (or his representative).

Issue No.1765- If a person sells counterfeit commodity, like, oil mixed with paraffin, and specifies it, for example, he says: “I am selling this oil”, the customer can cancel the transaction whenever he notices it. However, if he does not specify it, but rather says that he is selling, for example, 3 kgs of oil, but at the time of delivering it, he delivers counterfeit commodity, the buyer can return the oil, and ask for a normal commodity.

Issue No. 1766- Usury is haraam, and it is of two kinds: 1 – usury in loan that will be explained, God willing, in the section dealing with loans, 2 – usury in transaction, and it means a quantity of a commodity sold by weight or measurement at a higher rate against the same commodity, like, selling 3 kgs of wheat for 3 1/2 kgs of wheat. In Islamic narrations, usury has been reproached a great deal; taking or giving usury is considered to be one of the major sins.

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Issue No.1767- If one of the two kinds of the same commodity is defective and the other one is faultless, or one of them is superior and the other one inferior, or their prices differ for some other reasons, and the seller gives, for example, ten kilos of superior or faultless wheat, and takes fifteen kilos of inferior or faulted wheat, even then it is usury and haram. Hence, if a person gives manufactured gold and takes a larger quantity of raw gold, or gives manufactured copper and gets more of broken copper, or gives high quality rice and takes more of a lower quality rice, this is then considered usury and haram. Similarly, if he takes a commodity that is different from the one he is selling in addition to the undesired thing being sold; such as selling ten kilos of superior wheat against ten kilos of undesired wheat plus five dollars cash in hand. This is considered as usury and haram. Rather, if he does not take anything in excess but attach a condition to the transaction that the buyer would perform some act for him, it is also usury and is haram.

Issue No.1767- If one of the two kinds of the same commodity is defective and the other one is faultless, or one of them is superior and the other one inferior, or their prices differ for some other reasons, and the seller gives, for example, ten kilos of superior or faultless wheat, and takes fifteen kilos of inferior or faulted wheat, even then it is usury and haram. Hence, if a person gives manufactured gold and takes a larger quantity of raw gold, or gives manufactured copper and gets more of broken copper, or gives high quality rice and takes more of a lower quality rice, this is then considered usury and haram. Similarly, if he takes a commodity that is different from the one he is selling in addition to the undesired thing being sold; such as selling ten kilos of superior wheat against ten kilos of undesired wheat plus five dollars cash in hand. This is considered as usury and haram. Rather, if he does not take anything in excess but attach a condition to the transaction that the buyer would perform some act for him, it is also usury and is haram.