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The question

Am I obliged to pay a person the value of a prohibited commodity (hashish) after I destroyed it in repentance without returning it to him?

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Source: FtawySummary from Ftawy's records · added here Sep 2, 20261 min readAlso available in العربية
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You are not obligated to anything concerning the drugs, as the duty was to destroy them, and you have destroyed them. Therefore, there is no guarantee upon you in that matter. The seller does not own the price, and you did not benefit from the unlawful, but rather destroyed it.

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