Selling a pension

Question

Question: This humble one is a pensioned teacher. The basic pension is five and a half rupees and six and a half rupees, and a dearness allowance; altogether sixty-one rupees fifty rupees (?) monthly pension from the Government of India. There is a little property and only cultivable land. Now I wish to sell a small part of the pension I receive to the government and perform Hajj. Kindly inform me whether such a Hajj can be permissible or not.

Answer

This sale is impermissible. Hajj performed with unlawful wealth is not accepted (maqbul), although the obligation (fard) is discharged. However, if it is the government itself that gives the pension, and the government itself buys it, then it is a sale only in form, not in reality; rather, in place of the pension it gives monthly, it pays the pensioner in a lump, by its own…

Source: Fatawa Mahmudiyya

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