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owner, or one can give it as alms or as a present. And it is not
necessary to add it to the amount for zakât. If one does not
know the owner or his heir, it will become wâjib to give away all
the harâm property and the tainted mixture as alms. If the
owner happens to come forth later, the owner should be
compensated as well.]. It won’t be jâiz (permissible) if one
knows that the property is harâm itself to get it from the owner
who gives it away by selling, gifting, renting, loaning, paying
debts, or any other way. If a poor person, whom one gave the
harâm good as alms, gives it back to one as present, one can
use it as well. It is not jâiz to acquire any dirty goods when the
owner is known, by way of buying or renting, nor is it jâiz to
receive them as alms or as donations. The tainted property
won’t become halâl by these methods. One who has got tainted
items, money for example, if the owner is known, one should
give it back to him. If the owner is unknown the item should be
given to a poor person as alms. It will be a sin to give it to
anyone else. Accepting this item is not jâiz for anybody, except
the poor. It has been judged that inheritance could be accepted
by a heir who knows that it is harâm property. Please see the
beginning of the seventy-eighth chapter in the Turkish version.
For practial purposes in buying and selling, the fatwâ was given
according to Imâm-i Karhî’s inference. That is, after an item has
been sold, if the seller is paid with harâm money, but he did not
know the buyer would pay him with harâm money, in this case
the seller can accept it, and that item will be halâl for the buyer
to use. If the buyer says before buying something that he will
give something harâm or entrusted, and the seller promises that
he will accept it, in this case the item bought won’t be halâl for
the buyer to use. If the buyer says he will pay for an item with
something harâm, but he pays with something else, or if the
buyer says that he won’t pay with something harâm, but he
actually pays with something harâm, in this case, the thing
bought won’t be harâm or tainted.” While explaining usurpation,
Ibn Âbidîn (rahmat-Allâhu ta’âlâ ‘alaih) says, “Usurpation is to
take someone’s property by force, or to deny the thing
entrusted. Usurpation is a grave sin. If the item changed its
form, the owner can ask to be given his property together with
the amount of value changed, or to be paid its real value. One
should give it back at the place where one usurped it. After
compensation, it is jâiz for the usurper to use the item, but the
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