Buying And Selling And Who You Buy From And What They’ll Do With It
But me buying will still help them sell alcohol. I am still party and helping them If I know he’s an addict standing in a shady alleyway with a known dealer and I need to buy something from him is it correct?
Okay, so it moral to buy something from a drug addict NOT in front of a drug dealer?
I don’t think that you have any basis for not giving him your business because in your opinion he will use that money for something wrong. Perhaps, he will buy food with that money for his hungry kids, or use it to travel to a place of worship – you don’t know. Besides, by not buying from him, are you really stopping him from anything? Or could he sell his merchandise to another customer? You’re only responsible for making sure that your part of the transaction is legal, moral, and fair. You’re not responsible for his deeds. If you’re certain that he will use that money for some bad deed, and you know that by not buying from him he won’t commit that deed, then yes you have to reassess your need.
With your argument about are you really stopping him? If I stop someone from murdering one person am I really stopping him? He will just run away and kill someone else? The point is that I have ikhtiyar in this matter to help or not help. To give them my money or not. I can only think of one thing which is that we live in a non Muslim society and here for ease the rulings may be waived slightly
But if we adopt the attitude of ‘are we really stopping them’ then no change will ever occur