Question 540 - The Enlightening Answer Across the Ether, Vol 6

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Question 540

The esteemed Imam Ahmed Alhasan, may Allah make you steadfast ... Peace, mercy, and blessings of Allah be upon you. I have some jurisprudential questions concerning some matters with which we are afflicted here in America. I hope that you will answer me, and you have my utmost thanks and gratitude: 1. The government here provides financial assistance and housing for a nominal rent to those who cannot find work. Is it permissible for us to work without the government’s knowledge and without informing it, since it would then terminate our assistance, so that we would have both assistance and work ‘under the table’? 2. Are we entitled to circumvent the regulations of this country in order to obtain other benefits by various means? 3. Is it permissible for us to work selling the lottery tickets sold here? 4. There are certain goods that the government permits to be sold only to a specific group of people and in specific areas because they are tax-exempt. If we obtain them, are we entitled to sell them? This is despite knowing that the government punishes this act with financial fines and sometimes imprisonment. 5. Through your answers on this website, we sense that they are divinely guided and correspond to reality. On this basis, I want to ask you to whom you would direct me so that I may increase my knowledge of your truth. I thank you very much for your time, and may Allah reward you with goodness. Sender: Amal - America

Source: The Enlightening Answer Across the Ether, Vol 6; Author: Imam Ahmed Al-Hasan; Question 540; Page Not available; AL-JAWAB-AL-MUNIR-V6-Q540. View Arabic source · Open the original Arabic source ↗