What should I do with the salary I received for more than six months, knowing that I spent part of it, and exerted effort in obtaining and collecting it?
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Money earned from unlawful work is impermissible to own or benefit from; rather, it must be disposed of by spending it on charitable causes. What has been spent from it on oneself out of necessity incurs no sin, nor is its replacement required.
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