How to Compensate for Using Government Property for Personal Use?
Prohibition and Legalization,Sin and Illegal,How to Compensate for Using Government Property for Personal Use?
Fatwa No : 85468
How to Compensate for Using Government Property for Personal Use?
حظر و اباحت / جائز و ناجائز / گناہ و ناجائز
How to Compensate for Using Government Property for Personal Use?
What do the honorable scholars and muftis say regarding this matter: if a person has caused damage to public property (national assets) and now wishes to make amends, while there is no established Shar‘i government, then what will be the method of compensation?
Note: By “public property” it is meant, that the person had taken some items such as school furniture, tables, chalk, dusters, etc., from a government school, and those items are no longer in his possession. Kindly explain the proper Shar‘i method for him to be absolved from this sin.
الجوابُ حامِدا ًو مُصلیِّا ً
It is obligatory upon the questioner to sincerely repent and seek forgiveness for this sin, and, in whatever possible manner, return the mentioned items or their equivalent value to the authorized officials of the said school, so that he may also be absolved from accountability in the Hereafter.
مأخَذُ الفَتوی
کما الدرالمختار: (ويجب رد عين المغصوب) (في مكان غصبه) (ويبرأ بردها ولو بغير علم المالك) (أو) يجب رد (مثله إن هلك وهو مثلي وإن انقطع المثل) بأن لا يوجد في السوق الذي يباع فيه وإن كان يوجد في البيوت ابن كمال (فقيمته يوم الخصومة) أي وقت القضاءالخ (6 /182)۔
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