Can a Muslim Sell Wedding Cards Containing Photos of Gods? – Dr Zakir Naik - video Dailymotion

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Can a Muslim Sell Wedding Cards Containing Photos of Gods? – Dr Zakir Naik In this session, Dr. Zakir Naik discusses the Islamic perspective on selling wedding cards or similar items that feature images of deities worshipped in other religions. He explains the concept of avoiding involvement in shirk (associating partners with Allah), the prohibition of promoting or supporting un-Islamic beliefs, and the importance of earning halal income. The talk offers practical guidance for Muslims in business to ensure their trade remains ethically and Islamically permissible.

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00:00the next question from whatsapp assalamualaikum sir walikum assalam warahmatullahi wabarakatuh

00:09i am jamal from india i am involved in a business of wedding cards for the past six years

00:16i have a doubt about selling wedding cards with non-muslim gods is it okay sir i have this doubt

00:23from the beginning some say it's okay and some say it's not okay to sell them please sir give me a

00:31good knowledge about this thanks the question poses that is it permissible to sell wedding cards

00:37with photographs of non-muslim gods or gods of non-muslims actually the god for muslim and non-muslim

00:45is the same it is allah swt if you are saying that the gods with the non-muslim worship that's

00:51a different thing so gods of the non-muslim is the same allah swt god of all the human

00:56beings allah swt but i know what a question was that can you sell wedding cards on which

01:02there are photos of gods which are worshipped by non-muslims the answer to this is no you

01:10cannot sell cards or sell goods on which there are photographs of the gods which are worshipped

01:17by non-muslims they are doing shirk and you're promoting it if you're selling them cards with

01:23photographs of the gods which they think are gods and they worship and you sell it to them

01:27what are you doing you're helping them in shirk it's totally haram and there are various fatwas

01:31of top scholars including ibn Taymiya that you cannot wish the non-muslims during the festivals

01:38you cannot take part in the celebration you cannot help them to give them goods in which

01:46they are involved in doing wrong activity during the festival so and allah swt is very clear

01:53in surah maida chapter number five verse number two that help one another in bir and taqwa in

02:00righteousness and piety but do not help one another in sin and rancor so what are you doing you're

02:08giving them wedding cards with the photographs of the false gods which they worship this is shirk so

02:15helping them to do shirk so you cannot sell any goods which promote things which are haram and selling

02:23wedding cards or birthday cards or festival cards which have got photographs of non-muslim god

02:29is haram or even selling goods which help them to celebrate the non-muslim festivals encourage them

02:36or you're giving a discount on christmas saying that christmas sale or saying that there's a diwali sale

02:43and you're giving discount and you know trying to allure them you can give them discount there's no problem

02:49but giving discount because it's diwali or giving discount because it's christmas trying to attract customers

02:54this is haram as per the verse of the quran of surah maida chapter first number two that do not help

03:01one another in sin and rancor hope that answers the question

Can a Muslim Sell Wedding Cards Containing Photos of Gods? – Dr Zakir Naik

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