The Ruling on Working in a Mixed Job to Mitigate Evil

The questioner : The previous one: some employees are hired in hospitals and Saudi conditions where mixing occurs, even if he himself is not hired and others are, and it may happen without the presence of the same distortion.

The Shaykh : This, may Allah bless you, if his employment in this leads to mitigating evil, and the matter is such that it must be, did you understand? There is no doubt that this is better, and the person looks to the general benefit. And this, praise be to Allah, is the reality regarding the airlines; praise be to Allah, there are many people among the pilots and other employees who have much good. And if it were not for the presence of this generation, we ask Allah to make them predominant and to remove from all our affairs those who have no good in them, this has in fact become beneficial.

The questioner : I mean, restrict this to the individual.

The Shaykh : Come, let us restrict it to the individual; we are speaking about the general. As for the person who says, "If I go to the market and look at a woman, I experience desire," we say: do not go, not even to the market. The issue of restricting it to the individual is not applicable. And incidental matters are not applicable. If it is said, for example, that buying and selling are permissible after the Friday prayer is forbidden, do not look at incidental matters; we take the general rules. So as long as the matter mitigates evil, the more it increases for the good, the better it is, without doubt.