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Rashid leaned back. Was downloading the PDF a sin? He recalled a fatwa he once read: digitally copying a book without permission, where the author or publisher suffers financial loss, falls under ghulul (misappropriation) or hirabah (unjust taking) in some scholarly interpretations — unless the material is explicitly free or out of copyright. But if the book is a classical text (the author, perhaps Imam al-Ash‘ari or al-Maturidi, died centuries ago), copyright becomes murky. The content is public domain; the translation and typesetting may not be.

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Months later, Rashid found the pirated copy of Kitab Usuluddin on a file-sharing site. The file name was corrupted, the OCR had turned “Allah” into “Alia,” and the last chapter was missing. He smiled, deleted the link, and returned to his leather-bound copy — bought used from a small Islamic bookstore, its spine cracked in exactly the right places. Rashid leaned back

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