The Rights of the Headmen at Weddings

Question

(1) There is a community (majma‘) of a biradari (clan community) in which several persons have been appointed as headmen to manage occasions of grief and of joy. At occasions of grief nothing comes to them, but when there is a wedding function — for example, someone has given a feast for the whole biradari, the people came and ate, and the headmen ate too — then, without the host’s knowledge or permission, they set aside separately cooked rice, cooked vegetables and lentil stew, sweets, ghee and so on to take…

Answer

(1) Without the owner’s goodwill and permission it is not permissible, as in the words of Allah Most High: [ar]وَلَا تَأْكُلُوٓا۟ أَمْوَٰلَكُم بَيْنَكُم بِٱلْبَـٰطِلِ[/ar] “Do not consume one another’s wealth wrongfully” (Surah al-Baqara, 2:188), that is, do not consume one another’s property unjustly and by evil means. (2)

Source: Fatawa Mahmudiyya

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