Is it Permissible to Sell My Pre-Owned Animate Featured Jewelry to Buy a New Piece of Gold Jewelry? – Mawlana Ilyas Patel
Hanafi Fiqh
Answered by Mawlana Ilyas Patel
Question
I’m from India, where it’s common for gold jewelry to feature peacocks and elephants. I’m considering selling such jewelry to fund making my own animal-free pieces. Is it permissible in Islam to sell these items for profit and use the funds to create new jewelry?
Answer
In the Name of Allah, the Most Merciful and Compassionate
I pray you are in good faith and health. Thank you for your question.
It is permissible to sell your personally owned animate-shaped jewelry at a cost price. If you have sold it with profit, you should give the excess to charity (sadaqa). What is impermissible is to buy and sell animate featured jewelry. You may want to consider melting it down and using it to make a new piece of jewelry.
In Sharia, sculptures that resemble living beings are not permitted. Items such as jewelry or toys that bear a likeness to living beings with distinct features like eyes, a nose, a mouth, ears, and body structure are considered impermissible for sale.
[Ibn ’Abidin, Radd al-Muhtar]
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[Mawlana] Ilyas Patel
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Mawlana Ilyas Patel is a traditionally-trained scholar who has studied within UK, India, Pakistan, Syria, Jordan and Turkey.
He started his early education in UK. He went onto complete hifz of Qur’an in India, then enrolled into an Islamic seminary in UK where he studied the secular and Alimiyyah sciences. He then travelled to Karachi, Pakistan.
He has been an Imam in Rep of Ireland for a number of years. He has taught hifz of the Qur’an, Tajwid, Fiqh and many other Islamic sciences to both children and adults onsite and online extensively in UK and Ireland. He was teaching 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 UK with his wife. His personal interest is love of books and gardening.
