I am using several pirated software in my PC can you advice me whether this is allowed in Islam.
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I am using several pirated
software in my PC can you advice me whether this is allowed in Islam
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Answer:
Pirated
Software
In the name of Allah, We
praise Him, seek His help and ask for His forgiveness. Whoever Allah
guides none can misguide, and whoever He allows to fall astray, none can guide
them aright. We bear witness that there is no one (no idol, no person,
no grave, no prophet, no
imam, no dai, nobody!) worthy of worship but Allah Alone,
and we bear witness that Muhammad(saws) is His slave-servant and the seal of
His Messengers.
Islam and the Shariah Law protects the rights of the person or company
who develops or invents a product and his right to benefit from that product in
a just way. If some person or company
has strived to invent something, then it
is their right to market and benefit from that product. If someone ‘steals’ that product and uses it
without the permission of the company or person who invented it, then it would
be deemed illegal in Islamic Law, and would indeed be considered a sin in the
Sight of Allah Subhanah.
Whatever written
of Truth and benefit is only due to Allah’s Assistance and Guidance, and
whatever of error is of me. Allah Alone
Knows Best and He is the Only Source of Strength.
Your brother and well
wisher in Islam,
Burhan