THE DAILY ISLAMIC REMINDERS. Yaum Arba'a. 29th day of Rajab. (Wednesday, 2nd of March, 2022). CONSUMING HARAAM WEALTH OR INCOME. BismilLah.
The person who does not fear ALLAH does not care where he or she earns their money or how he spends it; his only concern is to increase his bank balance, OR just earn money, even if it is haraam and ill-gotten using theft, bribery, extortion, forgery, selling haraam things, riba (usury), consuming an orphan’s wealth, earnings from haraam work like fortune-telling, immorality or singing, stealing from the Muslim treasury or public property, taking people’s money by coercion or high-pressure sales tactics, begging when one is not in need, etc. Then he buys food, clothing and transportation with this ill-gotten money, builds or rents a house, furnishes it, and fills his stomach with haraam food.
The Prophet (peace and blessings of ALLAH be upon him) said: “Any flesh that grows from ill-gotten gains is more deserving of being touched by Hell-fire . . .”(Reported by al-Tabaraani in al-Kabeer, 19/136; see also Saheeh al-Jaami’, 4495). On the Day of Resurrection, each person will be asked how he earned money and on what he spent it, and there will be doom and loss. Anyone who still has haraam money should hasten to get rid of it; if it is due to anyone else, then he should hasten to return it and ask for forgiveness before there comes a Day on which dinars and dirhams will be of no avail, and all that will count will be hasanaat (good deeds) and sayi’aat(bad deeds).
May ALLAH protect us from consuming haraam sustenance and keep guiding us all. Aameen.
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