What is the ruling on selling copper to plastic recycling factories secretly due to the difficulty of obtaining a license for copper recycling, given my knowledge that the state prohibits this because copper is sometimes stolen, and is it permissible to sell it to a friend who owns a jewelry shop and claims that it is not prohibited, and what is the ruling on the money resulting from the aforementioned transactions?
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If the authorities prohibit the sale of copper to unlicensed recycling factories for a public interest, such as preventing theft, then their obedience in this regard is obligatory. As for the money earned from selling copper, it is lawful (), and violating the authorities' directive does not make the price unlawful (); rather, it only entails the sin of disobedience.
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