00:00The school students have to open the bank account in which the government sends money for school dress and copies.
00:08Is the money sent by government to Muslim students halal for them to use?
00:12Is the scholarship money halal to use?
00:15I am a widow.
00:17Is widow pension halal for a Muslim lady in India?
00:20Is Russian food material provided by the government of India halal for Muslims to use?
00:25Is ladli scream halal for a Muslim student?
00:28Please answer.
00:30The question posed was that they get various benefits for the children, whether it be scholarships, whether it be food.
00:42The women get benefits of the widow pension or ladli scream means that if you have a daughter and if you take care of the daughter, the government gives you some amount every year.
00:55It depends, maybe some 5,000 depending on the state in which you are, the ladli scream so that they encourage you having more daughters and yearly they give you maybe 5,000 rupees for five years or some give more so that it helps you economically.
01:08So is it allowed to take from the government the money may be haram, they may be involving in riba etc.
01:13The first part of the question says that you have to open an account and they put the money in the account.
01:21See to it that you open a current account.
01:23Since there are no Islamic banks in India and you are living in Delhi, my request to you would be see to it that you open a current account.
01:32A current account does not have any interest.
01:33So if you open a conventional bank, you have no option, you have no Islamic banks in India.
01:38So you open a bank account in a conventional bank but a current account, a current account which has no interest, a saving account is an account which is saving but has interest but less amount and then there is fixed deposit.
01:50So opening a fixed deposit account or a saving account is haram in a conventional bank.
01:55So since there are no Islamic banks, you open a current account and the current account may be a little bit difficult to open but it's possible.
02:03Once you open a current account and if you get money from the government whether a scholarship for your child or for the widow pension or as a largely scheme,
02:13even assuming that the money of the government is from wrong means, maybe from interest or maybe riba based, is it halal for you to take or not?
02:22According to fatwa by Shaykh al-Islam ibn Taymiyyah, that if a person acquires the wealth in a haram way, but if he gives you in a legal way,
02:33for example a person is dealing in riba, he gets a lot of money, but that money which he earns if he gives it to you,
02:42gifts it to you or gives you as a reward, gifting is halal, giving as a reward is allowed if he earned in a haram way, the sin is on him.
02:51But if that money is gifted to you or has been rewarded to you, for you to accept that money is halal, it's permitted.
03:01He will get the sin for earning in the haram way.
03:04Similarly, I am a doctor, if a person working in a bank, a manager comes for treatment and he's earned it in the haram way,
03:11I'm a medical doctor, I'm taking fees.
03:12For me it's allowed.
03:13For him earning the haram way, he will get the sin.
03:16But me as a medical doctor taking money, he might have earned it in the haram way, but me taking my fees is halal.
03:21Similarly, someone gives you a gift, taking gift is permitted, so he is doing a sin, for you it is allowed.
03:26Similarly, if it's a non-Muslim government, whether it be Indian government or government in the western country,
03:32it's giving you some benefit as a citizen or giving some scholarship.
03:36As long as you are a citizen, it is a right to take scholarship, that money even earned in the haram way, for you it is halal.
03:45Except in certain cases.
03:47And same thing when Bin Bas was asked by Fatwa Sheikh Bin Bas, he said as long as you are taking in the halal way,
03:55and the person giving you does not force you to do something haram.
03:59For example, if someone gives you a gift, and says that you promote a conventional bank which is riba-based, then that is haram.
04:06So while giving the gift, he does not impose on you anything which is haram, then taking that gift is permitted.
04:12If he asks to do something which is halal, no problem.
04:15If he says, okay, come and give tuition to my kids, okay, no problem, it's halal.
04:20But if he imposes something which is haram, or tells you to promote something which is haram, then taking that money is not permitted.
04:27But if he is not imposing something haram on you, taking that money is permitted.
04:32And secondly, what you have to realize, that as long as that product,
04:37according to Sheikh Bin Bas, if it's a product, for example, he has robbed something.
04:43And if it's a stolen property, then he is giving you a gift.
04:46The robbed property has to be returned to the owner.
04:49Then you cannot take that robbed property.
04:51So if he has earned it in a haram way, whether it be by selling alcohol, or by riba, then it's permitted.
04:56But if he is robbed something, and you come to know it is robbed, then it has to be returned to the rightful owner.
05:00But otherwise, if the government gives you something, even if it's not from a halal source,
05:05you as a Muslim, you can accept it, it's halal for you.
05:08Hope that answers the question.
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