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Fatwa CenterHis job is based on a car he bought with ill-gotten money
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Salam aleykoum. I cheated on the examination of the driver's license and I paid it with illicit money. I also bought my car with illicit money. Now I realize my work with my car and I got it working thanks to the fact that I have a driving license. Is what I am in sin when I drive? and the money I make at my job is illegal? Because I go every day to my work with my car and I got this job due to the fact that I dipose driver's license. Baraka Allah oufikoum
Answer
All perfect praise be to Allaah, The Lord of the Worlds. I testify that there is none worthy of worship except Allaah, and that Muhammad 
is His slave and Messenger.
If you drive well and do the work entrusted to you properly, then you are not sinful for driving the car or for doing your work as we clarified in Fatwa 87821.
Also, it is not forbidden for you to benefit from your car or from anything else on which you spent the forbidden money, but you are obligated to repent from cheating and you should become acquitted from the ill-gotten money which you have consumed or which you possess at hand.
If you took the ill-gotten money from specific people, then you have to give it back to its owners, and if the money is from Riba (usury/interest) or the like, then you should spend what you still possess of ill-gotten money in the general interest of the Muslims and give it to the poor and needy so that your remaining money will be lawful. By doing this, you will be acquitted from sin. In addition, you must regret what you had done and be determined not to do that again, and seek forgiveness for it. For more benefit, please refer to Fataawa 86527 and 169205.
Allaah Knows best.
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