If a phone charged with ill-gotten money is used in e-commerce or to contact customers, will the money earned from it be unlawful? And what should be done if the price of the charger bought with ill-gotten money is forgotten and one wishes to donate it?
It is true that tobacco is forbidden to sell, and leasing a place for its sale is also forbidden. However, if the shop is leased for selling permissible goods, and then the tenant sells tobacco alongside them, the rent does not become forbidden for the landlord.
Similarly, if a person buys something (like a phone charger) with illicit money, this does not mean that the use of the item itself is forbidden. Rather, repentance for the illicit money is obligatory.
Likewise, if a phone itself was bought with illicit money and used in a permissible trade, the profit would not be forbidden. Rather, the money used to buy the phone is forbidden, and its owner must repent for it by returning it to its owner or disposing of it by spending it on charitable causes if it has no owner.
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