{"_id":"69f25292faa0743188fe02f2","title":"{\"ops\":[{\"insert\":\"Is it permissible to steal goods based on claims of global injustice or to help the oppressed?\\n\"}]}","question":"{\"ops\":[{\"insert\":\"A person argues that it is permissible to steal goods from stores (especially large mega-retailers, like Walmart) based on the idea that global systems involve oppression and that such goods may ultimately trace back to unjust sources. He claims that taking these goods and giving them to oppressed people is a form of returning wealth to its rightful owners and justifies this using concepts like usurped property (ghaṣb), preserving life, and “the right of the hungry.”\\n\\nIs it permissible for someone to take property from others under such reasoning, and are these fiqh principles being applied correctly?\\n\"}]}","answer":"{\"ops\":[{\"insert\":\"What this person is doing is absolutely haram and entirely without justification. They are committing a sin against others by stealing what does not belong to them, and a sin against Allah by misappropriating His religion to justify it.\\n\"}]}","tags":[{"_id":"668d9ff70b76658b4c232a7b","tag":"Worship: Sins","count":102},{"_id":"668d9fde0b76658b4c23277c","tag":"Contemporary Life: Politics","count":36}],"createdOn":"2026-04-29T18:48:50.121Z"}