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

Zakir Naik
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A caller from India is asking if it's okay to sell wedding cards with non-Muslim gods, but the agent tells them that they cannot sell them. The agent explains that the gods are the same as Jesus and that shirking them is a wrong thing. The caller asks if they can sell wedding cards with photographs of non-Muslim gods, but the agent explains that they cannot because they are not recognized as gods and can't participate in annual festivals.
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The next question from WhatsApp, Assalamualaikum Sir, Waalaikumussalam

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Warahmatullahi Wabarakatuh.

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I am Jamal from India, I am involved

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in a business of wedding cards for the

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past 6 years.

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I have a doubt about selling wedding cards

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with non-Muslim gods.

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Is it ok Sir?

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I have this doubt from the beginning, some

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say it's ok and some say it's not

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ok to sell them.

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Please Sir, give me a good knowledge about

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this.

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Thanks.

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The question posed is that is it permissible

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to sell wedding cards with photographs of non

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-Muslim gods or gods of non-Muslims.

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Actually, the god for Muslim and non-Muslim

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is the same, it is Allah Subhanaw Taala.

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If you are saying that the gods with

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the non-Muslim worship, that's a different thing.

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So, gods of the non-Muslim is the

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same, Allah Subhanaw Taala.

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Gods of all the human beings, Allah Subhanaw

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Taala.

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But I know what your question was that

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can you sell wedding cards on which there

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are photos of gods which are worshipped by

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non-Muslims.

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The answer to this is no.

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You cannot sell cards or sell goods on

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which there are photographs of the gods which

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are worshipped by non-Muslims.

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They are doing shirk and you are promoting

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it.

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If you are selling them cards with photographs

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of the gods which they think are gods

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and they worship and you sell it to

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them, what are you doing?

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You are helping them in shirk.

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It's totally haram.

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And there are various fatwas of top scholars

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including Ibn Taymiyyah that you cannot wish the

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non-Muslims during the festivals.

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You cannot take part in the celebration.

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You cannot help them to give them goods

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in which they are involved in doing wrong

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activity during the festival.

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So and Allah Subhanaw Taala is very clear

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in Surah Maidah, chapter number 5, verse number

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2, that help one another in taqwa, in

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righteousness and piety, but do not help one

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another in sin and rancor.

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So what are you doing?

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You are giving them wedding card with the

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photographs of the false gods which they worship.

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This is shirk.

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So helping them to do shirk.

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So you cannot sell any goods which promote

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things which are haram.

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And selling wedding cards or birthday cards or

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festival cards which have got photographs of non

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-Muslim gods is haram.

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Or even selling goods which help them to

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celebrate the non-Muslim festivals, encourage them.

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Or you are giving a discount on Christmas,

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saying the Christmas sale, or saying that there

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is a Diwali sale, and you are giving

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discount and, you know, trying to allure them.

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You can give them discount.

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There is no problem.

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But giving discount because it is Diwali, or

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giving discount because it is Christmas, trying to

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attract customers, this is haram.

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As per the verse of the Quran of

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Surah Maidah, chapter 5, verse number 2, that

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do not help one another in sin and

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rancor.

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Hope that answers the question.

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