Is it theft?
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Please assist me in helping this person.
A friend of mine had been living in United States for about 9 years. He came here with an Investor Visa. That meant he had to prove to the Department of State, every 2 years, that he was making enough revenue for the country. Otherwise, the United States Department of State wouldn't renew his status. He had renewed his status without any problem, every 2 years. However, he hadn't seen his family overseas and decided to go visit. He knew he would have to apply for an E-2 Visa for him to be able to come back, but since his status had been checked and approved just last year, here in the United States, he thought he wouldn't face a problem. However, he was denied a Visa.
He thinks he was treated very unfairly. He has already appealed, to no avail. He has done nothing wrong, but the consulate overseas says he is not making enough revenue for the country, even though he pays all his taxes and bills, plus has always worked very hard, and had many american employees, etc.
This is the question Due to his great payments history, he has many thousand dollars worth in credit. Is it considered theft if he just charged the of credit cards, knowing he is not going to pay the bill?
He is confused because he thinks he was treated unfailry, and a right to revenge is allowed in the Quran. However, if he does it, he won't be getting back at the country he believes treated him wrong, but to the credit cards' owners, right?
What should we advise him? -
Please assist me in helping this person.
A friend of mine had been living in United States for about 9 years. He came here with an Investor Visa. That meant he had to prove to the Department of State, every 2 years, that he was making enough revenue for the country. Otherwise, the United States Department of State wouldn't renew his status. He had renewed his status without any problem, every 2 years. However, he hadn't seen his family overseas and decided to go visit. He knew he would have to apply for an E-2 Visa for him to be able to come back, but since his status had been checked and approved just last year, here in the United States, he thought he wouldn't face a problem. However, he was denied a Visa.
He thinks he was treated very unfairly. He has already appealed, to no avail. He has done nothing wrong, but the consulate overseas says he is not making enough revenue for the country, even though he pays all his taxes and bills, plus has always worked very hard, and had many american employees, etc.
This is the question Due to his great payments history, he has many thousand dollars worth in credit. Is it considered theft if he just charged the of credit cards, knowing he is not going to pay the bill?
He is confused because he thinks he was treated unfailry, and a right to revenge is allowed in the Quran. However, if he does it, he won't be getting back at the country he believes treated him wrong, but to the credit cards' owners, right?
What should we advise him?Peace,
Yes your friend is confused. The credit card company which has nothing to do with the visa and government immigration policy lent him the credit card in goodwill and he signed made a pledge gave his word to repay.
Therefore if your friend deliberately uses the credit cards to incur depth which he has no intention of repaying is committing theft and per Qur'an deserves to be devoid of his means to further perpetrate crime (i.e. cut off his hands or in this case sever his credit cards).
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Salaam K-S,
the mafia bankers run the American government, this is absolutely without any doubt, they have through the power to print fiat paper debt certificates we perceive as money, enslaved humanity within a prison planet, this debt system is dying due to the nature of the fraud itself, the banksters control immigration to maintain division, inequity and nationalism all of which they use against the individual.
As they create the debt of any loan through the power of the debtors signature, and nothing else in reality, is it theft, it is only what we perceive as theft because we value the fraud of debt certificates as money, if you do indeed perceive debt as money you would within your own mind be committing theft, and so could not take the credit.
An alternative perspective could be the costs and losses incurred through the fraud of the banksters, from the installation of their systems of population control, this is then a justified and fair compensation of your personal loss, this of course would require you within your own mind to truly accept this as the case, you would then not be committing theft but recovering your losses.