Hacking wifi service to avoid paying its fees

27-12-2015 | IslamWeb

Question:

Assalaamu alaykum. My college provides wifi with a fee, but I hacked my college wifi and used about 10 MB. Now I regret this; how can I repay for it? Please help me; what should I do?

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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, sallallaahu ʻalayhi wa sallam, is His slave and Messenger.

Firstly, you are obliged to repent to Allaah for what you have done; please refer to fatwa 86527 about the conditions of sincere repentance.

Then you have to pay the fees of the wifi service that you used to the concerned college officials or ask that they pardon you. If they pardoned you and waived their rights, then this clears you of your liability and you are then no longer obliged to pay them anything.

Allaah knows best.