Buying and Selling: Ruling on Buying Smuggled Livestock in Foreign Markets

Practical Laws of Islam as per the teachings of Imam Khamenei

Buying and Selling: Ruling on Buying Smuggled Livestock in Foreign Markets

English:

Question #1513:

Sheep and cattle are smuggled from Iran in to the markets of the Persian Gulf states. Is it permissible to buy such animals in those markets?

Answer #1513:

It is forbidden — according to Islamic law — to export sheep and other quadrupeds to foreign countries through illicit methods and in contravention of the regulations of the Islamic state.

-Imam Khamenei, Practical Laws of Islam, Importance and Conditions of Buying and Selling