Re: Haram things for charity
2) Pubs and Alcohol outlets or shares in them?
3) Pig farms and haram meat outlets?
There are quite a few more examples.
To someone who carries a very limited knowledge of Deen and even lesser intelligence, the answer shouldn't be that hard yet, it may have more than one answer depending on the situation. For example:
1: Is the person who owns such things a reborn Muslim and had them in possession before her turned to the Islam?
2: Did the person received the possession of those things from someone else, like his father's will, a relative, a gift or unintentionally?
3: Did the person decided to went ahead and BUY the forbidden things?
First, the simple concept of haram or forbidden in Islam.
They are forbidden in Islam because they either lead one to harm his/her own self or others, there are many examples to use and I am sure you have heard so let's not get into that.
Now, let me try to answer to the situations posted above by me. If someone feels/thinks/knows my answers are wrong in the light of Qur'an and Hadiths, correct me.
1: If he owned them before he accepted the truth of Islam and practices the rules of Islam then insha Allah, he will sell those forbidden things and use that money to something else. Of course a smart buyer will question him about why he is selling it, hence he can give them the reason why he is leaving this forbidden business (At the same time, he is actually doing Dawah so it's 2 birds with one stone).
2: Same as above with the exception where the situation someone like what Fraudia bhai stated where he received a check of his own money with the interest. If something like that had happened to me, I would have take my money out of the check and made a check to the company to the amount they sent me as interest and send them back with the explanation of why I can not accept this money.
3: If the person, knew about the forbidden things and still bought the business, it's Allah to decide the punishment (which, most likely is already discribed in Qur'an or Hadiths) or forgiveness. **
**It's like me going for a car shopping and know nothing about the car. I have 2 options. One is to follow the manual the car (Which in this car is Qur'an) or asks someone who knows the most about cars (In this case, the Prophet (PBUH) or just learn on my own by trying and pressing different buttons, some might work in favor of me and some might not but that's the risk I need to take to drive and buy this car.
Hope I explianed it enough so others can understand what I am trying to say here.