| Source: | http://qa.muftisays.com/?13210 |
| Question ID: | #13210 |
| Question: Is income from developing a program while sitting on a chair bought with stolen money haram? | |
| Assalamu alaykum. Suppose I was developing a website or program at home, actively using the internet. The internet and electricity were paid for with stolen money, the chair I sat on while working was also bought with stolen money, and the rent for the house where I was working was paid with haram money, and so on. When a person starts a business with stolen money, they are obligated to return the profits as well—does this principle apply here, or is the income itself halal in this case, and are these two things different? I know about the obligation to return what was stolen, but I’m interested in the status of the money itself: as long as the stolen money hasn’t been returned, is the income from developing the website halal? | |
| Answered by: | Ulamaa ID 04 (London) |
| Date: | 01/07/2026 18:39pm |
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
|
|
| Mufti Qamruzzaman London, UK |
|
| www.MuftiSays.com | |