Selling fake designer glasses frames

Submitted by user2 on Wed, 2019-08-07 07:48

Q: Please advise on the following:

A Muslim optometrist is having a problem with unqualified people smuggling fake designer frames into the country. These people send their customers to professional optometrists for eye tests and they ask for a script. Then they have their glasses made at a reduced cost by the "pirate" dealer.

Is it Islamically correct to have these types of crooks reported to the authorities? Some are Muslims and some are Non-Muslims.

A: If the glasses that he is selling are reliable and it is doing its job then his business is not haraam.

And Allah Ta'ala (الله تعالى) knows best.

Answered by:

Mufti Ebrahim Salejee (Isipingo Beach)

Category:

Business and Dealings›Trade›Copyright, Franchising and Goodwill

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