General

Taking flowers from public places

Q: Please can Mufti Saheb let me know if it is permissible to take flowers etc. from public spaces like the beach, empty public fields or on the side of the road. 

Certain plants are bulb types - meaning they multiply as the years go. Can you take a few of these wild bulbs home to plant in your own garden? 

Can you take some grass for example with part of the root attached to replant? No damage will be caused in these cases to the other plants and also there will still be many more of these plants left in the area.

Leaving unwanted furniture for the dirt truck to pick up

Q: My mother complained that the bags that people put next to a tree on our road gets collected quickly and that we are needlessly keeping unwanted furniture etc. in our house when it can get collected quickly and for free. She threw some of our bags in that area. 

I told her fly-tipping is wrong but she says that everyone does it. Fly-tipping is considered illegal and finable. I’m worried that she may be sinning by doing so. Does she have to repent? I’m also worried that I may have aided her as she asked for a bag to collect the waste to throw out and I reluctantly gave her.