Khums and Property of Uncertain Ownership from Kuwait in 1990 — Jurisprudential Answers — Miscellaneous Issues, Vol. 4

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Question 38

I lived in Kuwait before the events of 1990. When the Iraqi army entered Kuwait, most people left their homes and traveled to neighboring countries, and many houses were looted by people who remained or by Iraqi soldiers. In the area where I lived there was a house whose owners had traveled. One of their relatives who remained in Kuwait regularly checked the house and its belongings. That person met one of my relatives, who was a soldier in the Iraqi army, and agreed to sell him the contents of the house. My relative bought the belongings intending to take them to Iraq and paid the agreed price. I do not know whether the sale was authorized by the owners. My relative later gave me some of those belongings. I still use some of them, while others have been damaged. I now want to pay khums but do not know how. Should these belongings be considered unlawful, making my household furniture a case of lawful property mixed with unlawful property, or are they considered lawful? How would khums be paid if the items can or cannot be individually identified?

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Source: الأجوبة الفقهية (مسائل متفرقة - ج4); Question 38; Page Not available; FIQH-MISC-V4-Q038. View Arabic source · Open the original Arabic source ↗