Donations for a Madrasa from a Wine Merchant

Question

Question: The difficulty regarding money from wine is this. Some ‘ulama, calling wine haram, forbid dealings in it, yet they accept donations for the madrasa and also eat and drink with such people; they stand at the premises of those who carry on the wine business and take that very money, saying that with this money they will order books of hadith and tafsir and give them to the boys in the madrasa: they will study, and there will be reward for it; and they eat and drink at their places too; moreover they say…

Answer

A curse has come in the hadith upon the one who sells and the one who buys wine; its sale, in respect of a Muslim, is a void sale (bay‘ batil), and ownership is not established over its price. If it is known that such-and-such a person’s money is purely haram, then taking that money and eating from it is by no means permissible, as long as it is not known that the person is…

Source: Fatawa Mahmudiyya

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