Earning Something Over An Action That Is Circumstantially Haram
@Irfan76 Okay sir. i want to ask a similar scenario question. sexual relationship while being unmarried is Haram and Allah requires from us to stay from it, and it’s violation will incur us sin because while he was unmarried to that lady he was required to not have relationship with her. and that is why any earning of it remains Haram. My question is that when a person genuinely thinks something to be major Haram. Allah requires from him that he has to avoid it else if he does it while thinking it’s Haram, he’ll incur a sin on that action. a person might say that it sort of becomes Haram for that person while he believes. so still he does it and incurs sin on it. the sin was on these 2 things getting combined (believing something to be Haram + still doing it). for example Zaid helps another man to get a riba-based loan (while Zaid was thinking that taking and assisting in taking such loan is also a major sin). later afterwards he gets to know that this action was not Haram. and after sometime the man who he helped, comes with a watch to give him as a reward for helping him in taking loan. Will this watch be halal for him to use? because the medium of this watch is based on an action, which incurred him sin when he performed it (it was sort of required for him not to do that, at that time. just as it was required for a man not to sexual relationship while unmarried to a lady). will the watch be halal to use?
When you know later that the action was not a sin actually, you can keep the watch. if your taqwa does not allow, you can leave it.