Will My Tailored Clothes Count as Acquired From Illicit Money?

Answered by Mawlana Ilyas Patel

Question

I bought several thobes with halal money (approx $500 worth). I then went to tailor the thobes above the ankles and used some cash available in the home (approx. $150) to pay the tailor. The cash was given by a close relative who is Muslim. This particular relative works as a bartender at a hotel (potentially receiving some haram funds). Still, they also have some other funds that are presumably halal, and I do not know where the cash came from in their pool of funds. When I thought about it (after the tailoring was done), I became worried if my clothes were halal and if my prayers would be accepted while wearing them. I have now set aside approximately $150 in cash from my halal funds. I wonder what to do with the thobes and cash I set aside.

Answer

• Can I Work at a Firm Involved in Interest-Based Transactions? – SeekersGuidance
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• Is the Default Ruling On Things Permissibility? – SeekersGuidance
• Provision and Work: A Reader – SeekersGuidance
• Is It Permissible To Work For the Government and Receive Salary Derived From Taxation? – SeekersGuidance
• Paying Taxes to a Government That Harms Muslims – SeekersGuidance
• Muslim Participation in Non-Muslim Governments – SeekersGuidance
• (122) 30 – Devil’s Tricks – The Path of Muhammad: Birgivi’s Manual of Taqwa Explained – Sh Faraz Rabbani – YouTube
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Wassalam,
[Mawlana] Ilyas Patel
Checked and Approved by Shaykh Faraz Rabbani

Mawlana Ilyas Patel is a traditionally-trained scholar who has studied in the UK, India, Pakistan, Syria, Jordan, and Turkey. He started his early education in the UK. He went on to complete the hifz of the Quran in India, then enrolled in an Islamic seminary in the UK, where he studied the secular and ‘Aalimiyya sciences. He then traveled to Karachi, Pakistan. He has been an Imam in Rep of Ireland for several years. He has taught hifz of the Quran, Tajwid, Fiqh, and many other Islamic sciences to children and adults onsite and online extensively in the UK and Ireland. He taught at a local Islamic seminary for 12 years in the UK, where he was a librarian and a teacher of Islamic sciences. He currently resides in the UK with his wife. His interest is a love of books and gardening.