Helping in Good and in Sin
This subtopic gathers questions on helping, lending to or serving someone who may turn that help to sin. It also holds questions on sharing in another person's sin.
Questions readers ask here:
- What is the difference between pointing to evil and cooperating in evil?
- Is one who books a hotel or travel for a person intending unlawful acts sinful?
- What is the ruling on cooperating in sin and aggression by bringing something bought with haram money?
- Is it a sin for a fasting woman to inform her non-Muslim colleagues of the iftar meal's arrival?
A job or task that touches the forbidden belongs under Working Around the Impermissible.
10 questions
Is going to collect money from someone to book a mixed trip, on behalf of a busy brother, considered aiding in a forbidden evil?
Is one who leaves their wireless internet open for others to use sinful if someone uses it for illicit purposes?
Is a brother sinful if he subscribes to the internet for his sister, and she then uses it for unlawful things, and is it sufficient to take a pledge from her not to use it in ways that displease Allah for him to be absolved of responsibility?
Does the questioner bear the sins of the young man and woman's conversations every time they speak to each other, based on the Hadith: "Whoever calls to misguidance will have the same sin as those who follow him"?
Does one sin by removing harmful objects from a road if that road is used for disobedience?
Does sin befall someone who directs a person to the location of an innovative Sufi mosque that contains a grave, while being unaware of the questioner's intention? And what should be done in the future when encountering places of iniquity?
What should we do with clothes we bought as gifts for our relatives, knowing that they might wear them without a proper hijab or in front of non-mahram men?
Does my action constitute aiding in sin and necessitate expiation because I transported a blind man to a church?
Is helping a neighbor connect to the internet by running a cable through one's home and assisting with the setup a cause for sin if the neighbor uses it to disobey Allah, bearing in mind that the internet can also be used for beneficial things?
What is the ruling on gifting a car to someone who is most likely to use it sometimes for unlawful purposes, or building a kitchen for someone who is most likely to use it sometimes for unlawful purposes, based on the Sharia principle that prohibits a gift if it is highly probable that it will be used for unlawful purposes?