Is it permissible to complete the procedures for receiving a social housing apartment to pay off accumulated debts, knowing that the applicant was unaware of its impermissibility at the time of application, and has now fallen into financial hardship due to rising prices and increasing debts?
The limit of legal necessity that permits committing a prohibited act is when one predominantly believes that by not committing it, they will face destruction, unbearable hardship, or inability to achieve the minimum standard of life for the poor. Wahbah Al-Zuhayli defined it as a state of danger or severe hardship where there is fear of harm to oneself, a limb, honor, intellect, or property, thus permitting the commission of a forbidden act or the omission of an obligation to دفع the harm. The mere existence of debt is not considered a necessity unless the debtor is exposed to imprisonment because of it, or cannot find the minimum standard of life for the poor.
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