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I have a retail bussiness,,
which during there holiday I carry there goods, like
Christmas decoration, mothers day, Easter,, holloween,,
ect,, is this harram,, I use to own a supermarket once
I sold it and I didn't want to get in to that again
cause sold beer and pork..
also brother I hope you don't
mind mentioning some of the items I sale, tell me if
its haraam condoms, ceramic figurs, cigarettes,
lottery,, medicine some contain alcohol,, or the gel
tablets,, candy that may or my not have any haraam in
it, toothpaste,, some of these items are haraam for us
to use but can it be sold to the kafir since they the
only customers.
Praise be to Allah.
You have done well not to sell things that Allah has
forbidden such as beer and pork. We ask Allah to bless
you with a halaal provision and to compensate you with
good.
With regard to the things you asked about, the details
are as follows:
1 – It is not permissible for a Muslim to take part in
the festivals of the kuffaar, such as Christmas and
Easter, or to sell the things that will help them in
that, because Allah says (interpretation of the
meaning):
"Help you
one another in Al‑Birr and At‑Taqwa (virtue,
righteousness and piety); but do not help one another
in sin and transgression"
[al-Maa'idah 5:2]
The same applies to innovated festivals such as
Mother's Day. It is not permissible to sell anything
that may help them to celebrate it.
2 – The basic ruling is that it is permissible to use
and sell condoms, unless the vendor knows or thinks it
most likely that they will be used for haraam
purposes, in which case it is not permissible to sell
them.
The basic principle concerning that – as Shaykh
al-Islam Ibn Taymiyah (may Allah have mercy on him)
said – is: "Every garment which one thinks will most
likely be used for sinful purposes, it is not
permissible to sell it or sew it for one who will use
it for sinful and wrongful purposes." (Sharh al-‘Umdah,
4/386)
This does not apply only to clothes, rather it is
general and applies to everything that may be bought
or sold.
3 – It is haraam to sell tobacco and lottery tickets,
and every product which is known to involve something
that is haraam.
It says in a fatwa issued by the Standing Committee
(13/55): "It is not permissible to deal in tobacco or
any haraam things, because they are khabaa'ith (evil
and filthy things), and because of the physical,
spiritual and financial harm they cause."
With regard to the lottery, it is the essence of
gambling. Shaykh Ibn ‘Uthaymeen (may Allah have mercy
on him) said: "This method which the questioner
mentions, whereby a person buys a ticket and if he is
lucky, as he says, he will win a large amount, in
included under the heading of gambling of which Allah
says (interpretation of the meaning):
"O you who
believe! Intoxicants (all kinds of alcoholic drinks),
and gambling, and Al‑Ansaab (stone altars for offering
sacrifices to idols, the jinn, etc), and Al‑Azlaam
(arrows for seeking luck or decision) are an
abomination of Shaytaan's (Satan's) handiwork. So
avoid (strictly all) that (abomination) in order that
you may be successful.
Shaytaan
(Satan) wants only to excite enmity and hatred between
you with intoxicants (alcoholic drinks) and gambling,
and hinder you from the remembrance of Allah and from
As‑Salaah (the prayer). So, will you not then abstain?
And obey
Allah and the Messenger (Muhammad), and beware (of
even coming near to drinking or gambling or Al‑Ansaab,
or Al‑Azlaam) and fear Allah. Then if you turn away,
you should know that it is Our Messenger's duty to
convey (the Message) in the clearest way"
[al-Maa'idah 5:90-92]
This gambling – which includes every transaction in
which the person will end up either losing and
winning, but he does not know whether he will be a
winner or a loser – is all haraam; indeed it is one of
the major sins. It is obvious that it is something
abhorrent when we realize that Allah has mentioned it
in conjunction with idol-worship, alcohol and al-azlaam
(arrows used for seeking luck or decision – a kind of
fortune-telling).
(Fataawa Islamiyyah, 4/441).
We should note that everything which it is forbidden
to do or to use, it is also forbidden to sell, because
the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him)
said:
"May Allah
curse the Jews; animal fat was forbidden to them, so
they sold it and consumed its price. When Allah
forbids a thing He also forbids its price."
(Narrated by Ahmad and Abu Dawood, 3026; classed as
Sahih by al-Albaani in Sahih al-Jaami', no. 5107).
4 – It is not permissible to make images of animate
beings, whether humans, birds or animals. If that is a
three-dimensional image it is even more forbidden.
On this basis, it is not permissible to sell any of
these figures made of ceramic etc., if they are of
this nature. But if they are images of inanimate
things such as mountains and other natural scenes,
there is nothing wrong with making them and selling
them.
It says in Fataawa al-Lajnah al-Daa'imah, 13/73:
"Buying and selling images of animate beings is haraam
because it was narrated that the Messenger of Allah
(peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) said:
‘Allah and His Messenger have forbidden the sale of
alcohol, dead meat, pork and idols.' (Agreed upon).
That is because it may lead to exaggeration concerning
the people depicted, as happened among the people of
Nooh… and because of many other texts which also state
that it is haraam to make images and to use images of
animate beings."
5 – With regard to medicines that contain alcohol, if
the amount of alcohol contained is large and may cause
intoxication if a person drinks a large amount of the
medication, then this medication counts as alcohol and
it is haraam to use it or sell it. But if the amount
of alcohol is little and will not cause intoxication
no matter how much is drunk, then it is permissible to
use it and sell it.
It says in a fatwa issued by the Standing Committee
concerning the sale of perfumes that contain alcohol:
"If the amount of alcohol in the perfume reaches the
level where it will cause intoxication if a lot of
that perfume is drunk, then drinking that perfume is
haraam, dealing in it is haraam, and that applies to
all kinds of uses, because it is alcohol, whether it
is a lot or a little. But if the thing with which the
perfume is mixed, such as alcohol, does not reach the
level where drinking a lot of it will cause
intoxication, then it is permissible to use it and
deal in it, because the Prophet (peace and blessings
of Allah be upon him) said:
‘Whatever
causes intoxication in large amounts, a little of it
is haraam.'"
(Fataawa al-Lajnah al-Daa'imah, 13/54)
6 – Whatever it is haraam for a Muslim to use, it is
also haraam for him to sell it to either Muslims or
kaafirs, because the kaafirs are also addressed by the
rulings of sharee'ah, including rulings on minor
issues, according to the view of the majority of
scholars, and what is forbidden for Muslims is also
forbidden for them. So it is not permissible to sell
them alcohol or pork, or anything else which is proven
to be forbidden in our religion, even if we assume
that it is permitted to them in their religion,
because the sharee'ah of Islam abrogates and corrects
the laws that came before it.
It says in Fataawa al-Lajnah al-Daa'imah 13/49:
Question: Is it permissible to deal in alcohol and
pork if one does not sell them to a Muslim?
Answer: It is not permissible to deal in that which
Allah has forbidden, whether that is food or other
things, such as alcohol and pork, even if one is
dealing with kaafirs, because it was proven that the
Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him)
said:
"When Allah
forbids a thing, He also forbids its price." (Narrated
by Ahmad, no. 2564; Sahih al-Jaami', 5107). And
because the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be
upon him) cursed alcohol and the one who drinks it,
the one who sells it, the one who buys it, the one who
carries it, the one to whom it is carried, the one who
consumes its price, the one who squeezes out the juice
and the one for whom it is squeezed out."
(narrated by al-Tirmidhi, 1295; Sahih al-Tirmidhi,
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