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Is downloading a pirated sports program without purchasing it considered consuming ill-gotten gains, or is it merely the sin of theft, and what are the implications for a body that has grown from unlawful earnings?

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If the question intends to ask about the body's growth and its benefit from sports exercises that the questioner learned from a pirated program, then does the hadith: "No flesh that has grown from unlawful earnings will enter Paradise; the Fire is more befitting for it," apply to it? The answer is that the hadith does not apply to it. However, the questioner's conscience remains burdened with the rights of the program's owners, because intellectual property rights are preserved for their owners according to reputable fatwa councils.

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