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What is the ruling on the proceeds from selling cars subsidized by the public treasury, which were imported through a monopoly and via private intermediary companies? And what is the ruling on money earned from mediation between employees and financiers to divide profits?

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The Fatwa Center does not concern itself with the intentions of ruling regimes. Transactions concluded between beneficiaries and financiers are considered unlawful consumption of public funds, and anyone involved in them is cooperating in sin, with the exception of those in straitened circumstances whose needs are not met by allocated funds. For them, it is permissible to alleviate their hardship by the least harmful means.

Whoever engaged in such transactions ignorantly of their prohibition, then repented, may benefit from what they gained, based on the verse: "So whoever receives an admonition from his Lord and desists may have what is past, and his affair rests with Allah. But whoever returns [to interest] - those are the companions of the Fire; they will abide eternally therein" [Al-Baqarah: 275]. The more pious approach is to dispose of it for charitable causes or public welfare. As for one who engaged in them while knowing their prohibition, part of their repentance is to dispose of what they gained for charitable causes.

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