Question :
Assalamu Alaykum wa rahmatu 'llah,
Alhamdu lillah who is guiding me towards repentance from listening to music. My problem is that I purchased many CD's from a company a while back and I have not paid them yet, and the company is asking me for payment now, and I can not return the CD's anymore. I know that it is haram for me to sell those CD's to make a profit, in this case is it permissible for me to sell those CD's to the Kuffar and get just enough money to pay the company I bought them from? If not what should I do? Jazakum Allah Khairan ya shaikh, and may Allah reward you for your efforts as well as all your helpers.

Answer :
Praise be to Allaah.
We put this question to Shaykh Muhammad ibn al-�Uthaymeen, may Allaah preserve him:
�In the name of Allaah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful. Praise be to Allaah, Lord of the Worlds, and peace and blessings be upon our Prophet Muhammad and upon all his family and companions. What you must do now is to erase the songs from the tapes and return the tapes or pay the value of the empty tapes, because the tapes themselves are worth something, and it is only the songs that are haraam. You have two options: either erase the songs and return the tapes, or erase the songs and give them money equivalent to the value of the empty tapes.� If you cannot return the tapes, then pay them the cost of the empty tapes. If you cannot erase the songs, then just destroy the tapes. Do not sell them to a kaafir with the songs still recorded on them. And Allaah knows best.

Sheikh Muhammed Salih Al-Munajjid