Faraz Rabbani – Weekly Q&A Is It Considered Stealing If I Enter the Bus out a Ticket

There's a question. Is it considered

stealing if I enter the bus without a

ticket

with the permission of the driver. So

the believer does not

lie, cheat or deceive.

And the believer is one who is avid

to fulfill

all rights and responsibility. Allah commands

us.

All you who believe

fully

fulfill

all commitments.

So

you cannot

use

a private or public service without permission and

without fulfilling the condition of usage.

So a bus, for example, or other public

transportation or other private

transfer

transportation, you cannot get on a bus without

paying the ticket.

If for some reason the bus driver allows

you, then one has to consider honestly,

are they allowing you because they have the

permission to do so because the bus driver

acts on behalf of the company?

If they do have your,

you know, the the the company has a

policy that's known that

you can let a certain number of passengers

on for free. I don't know of such

services,

But if they

do, then you can

avail yourself of that rule.

But that tends not to be the case.

But if a bus driver just lets you

on near their neighbor or whatever, a lot

of people don't really care. You know, they

kinda get slack in their work life in

these things. Then even if they

insist on not taking

payment, one must pay oneself.

I remember,

my mother,

Yousaf mentioned there's a bus route when we're

living in England in the eighties.

There was a bus driver from similar ethnic

background to ours,

but not quite the same.

And

he he would refuse to take to take

payment from my mother,

and they used to have bus conductors. They

used to go around taking a fare. He

refused. My mother would insist on paying.

And, eventually, you know, he said that, auntie,

these guys stole from us and displace us

from our lands and this and that, whatever.

And he said, you know, auntie, when

Allah is all merciful,

the donkey even the donkey becomes mighty.

When Allah is all merciful,

even the

donkey is truly powerful.

But my my mother said, oh, that that's

all fine and dandy. She insisted on paying,

and that's, you know, and that's what we

learn

in life. Pay up.