What is the ruling on one who works in an establishment where some of its proceeds go to forbidden harms?
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The questioner : One of the brothers works in an air conditioning manufacturing shop. For example, they receive an order for, say, one hundred air conditioners. The company might be involved in corruption, such as a tavern, a shop, a bank, or something like that.
The Shaykh : ... .
The questioner : He asks about the ruling on his work in this.
The Shaykh : It is not permissible.
The questioner: Yes.
Another questioner : ... My Shaykh, not every repair job is necessarily... not all the repairs are for banks; they do general repairs.
The Shaykh : ... the one that manufactures... takes its ruling.
The questioner : Yes, okay, my Shaykh, does the ruling differ if they originally manufacture them not for a specific person, but they manufacture them and store thousands of air conditioners in the warehouses, and then a company, a bank, or others come and withdraw from this warehouse?
The Shaykh : The result is the same; it is not permissible. If he manufactured them and stacked them, and then sold them to the company, what is the difference between this scenario and the company ordering a certain number in advance and the manufacturer making them? There is no difference. The important thing is cooperation in evil.
The questioner : ... what prevails in the worker's mind, if most of it is here and most of it goes there, is that sometimes... yesterday we asked one of them, my Shaykh, who works in a job like this with refrigerators.
The Shaykh : ... sometimes.
The questioner : That is, sometimes they buy from them for the bank or the company, and he is the manufacturer.
The Shaykh : My brother, the one who came with two questions.
The questioner : Yes.
The Shaykh : And we explained that there is no difference between the first question and the second question, sometimes. What is "sometimes"? Is it a consignment or a sale?
The questioner : Sale.
The Shaykh : Okay, the answer came. What is the difference between a consignment and a sale? Has not the cause of cooperation in evil occurred?
The questioner : But... in it... my Shaykh.
The Shaykh : How is it that he does not know? My brother, I am telling you, he sold to the company, he sold to the bank, he did not know to whom he was selling.
The questioner : No, my Shaykh, this young man who works does not know how the company disposes of the goods he manufactures, because he is just a welder; he welds the sheet metal in this air conditioning company.
The Shaykh : The question is one word, one letter changes it. Now you say the manufacturer, okay, and the craftsman.
The questioner : The craftsman knows.
The Shaykh : Okay, the blame falls directly on the craftsman. As for the manufacturer, here it is detailed that he knows that in the majority of cases it is sold through a permissible way, and in the rare case he knows it is through a forbidden way.
The questioner : Yes.
The Shaykh : Okay, here the known report comes, that in a fatwa and in the piety of the fatwa, it is permissible, and piety is to stay away. Leave what makes you doubt for what does not make you doubt.
The questioner : Yes, may Allah reward you with good.
Another questioner : Yesterday, the day before yesterday, in such piety, the Fajr prayer, a man in the mosque introduced me to a professor with a beard and a thobe, meaning a young man, may Allah be pleased with him. He said to me, I want to introduce you to our brother, I mean, I said to him, we have a young man in the mosque who gives us a word in the morning and we benefit from it, so come and listen to it. So he attended today to listen to you. He was pleased and said, may Allah reward you with good, meaning he was happy with you. But he had a specific question. I said to him, go ahead. He said to me, I work as a professor; this young man who came, attended, is a professor at our Shaykh's industrial college, the industrial college. He is a professor there for repairing radios and televisions, and they want to second him to another college for the deaf and mute, so that the deaf and mute, meaning the deaf and mute, repair televisions and radios, and he teaches them. So he says to me, is there something wrong with my job... I explained to him the explanation that you are explaining, meaning what we comprehend from you regarding[Al-Ma'idah 5:2], and I mentioned to him the cursing in intoxicants, ten, the cursing in usury, five, the cursing in bribery, three. All this cursing is on three people: the carrier of usury, the drinker of intoxicants, the briber. They shared in eighteen for the sake of three. When he said, "By Allah, my brother, we asked the Shaykhs and they did not explain it to us like this," I said to him, "We, my Shaykh, have explained it to us, may Allah reward him with good." I said to him, "Do you want to estimate, for example, the eighteen cursed for the sake of three categories? If we say it becomes cursed by the consequences of the three, that is fifteen. If we say three thousand in the Muslim society are cursed, the ones cursed for their sake are fifteen thousand. Say eighteen million Muslims, three million, the cursed are also fifteen million, an increase of cursed ones for the evil." He said to me, "Allah is the Greatest, my brother, what is this work? By Allah, truly." I said, "What prevails in your mind? What do these people do with the radio?" He said to me, "Disasters." I said to him, "Okay, this is the answer for you. Why do you teach them to repair it? You must teach them to corrupt it." He said to me, "If Allah wills, what should I do?" I said to him, "This will return to you [At-Taghabun 64:16], [At-Talaq 65:2-3], leave this work, and by Allah - Glorified and Exalted is He - He will replace it with something better for you. Whoever leaves something for the sake of Allah, Allah replaces it with something better." He said to me, "By Allah, may Allah reward you with good and bless you." Meaning, as you say, my Shaykh, his perspective changed. Meaning... among the people he asked first, and you have no relation. You teach repair, what is this? And you serve the disabled so that they can serve themselves.
The Shaykh : ... .
The questioner : Yes.
The Shaykh : You get money...
The questioner : And a young man, may Allah be pleased with him, my Shaykh.
The Shaykh : ... .
The questioner : He asks about the ruling on his work in this.
The Shaykh : It is not permissible.
The questioner: Yes.
Another questioner : ... My Shaykh, not every repair job is necessarily... not all the repairs are for banks; they do general repairs.
The Shaykh : ... the one that manufactures... takes its ruling.
The questioner : Yes, okay, my Shaykh, does the ruling differ if they originally manufacture them not for a specific person, but they manufacture them and store thousands of air conditioners in the warehouses, and then a company, a bank, or others come and withdraw from this warehouse?
The Shaykh : The result is the same; it is not permissible. If he manufactured them and stacked them, and then sold them to the company, what is the difference between this scenario and the company ordering a certain number in advance and the manufacturer making them? There is no difference. The important thing is cooperation in evil.
The questioner : ... what prevails in the worker's mind, if most of it is here and most of it goes there, is that sometimes... yesterday we asked one of them, my Shaykh, who works in a job like this with refrigerators.
The Shaykh : ... sometimes.
The questioner : That is, sometimes they buy from them for the bank or the company, and he is the manufacturer.
The Shaykh : My brother, the one who came with two questions.
The questioner : Yes.
The Shaykh : And we explained that there is no difference between the first question and the second question, sometimes. What is "sometimes"? Is it a consignment or a sale?
The questioner : Sale.
The Shaykh : Okay, the answer came. What is the difference between a consignment and a sale? Has not the cause of cooperation in evil occurred?
The questioner : But... in it... my Shaykh.
The Shaykh : How is it that he does not know? My brother, I am telling you, he sold to the company, he sold to the bank, he did not know to whom he was selling.
The questioner : No, my Shaykh, this young man who works does not know how the company disposes of the goods he manufactures, because he is just a welder; he welds the sheet metal in this air conditioning company.
The Shaykh : The question is one word, one letter changes it. Now you say the manufacturer, okay, and the craftsman.
The questioner : The craftsman knows.
The Shaykh : Okay, the blame falls directly on the craftsman. As for the manufacturer, here it is detailed that he knows that in the majority of cases it is sold through a permissible way, and in the rare case he knows it is through a forbidden way.
The questioner : Yes.
The Shaykh : Okay, here the known report comes, that in a fatwa and in the piety of the fatwa, it is permissible, and piety is to stay away. Leave what makes you doubt for what does not make you doubt.
The questioner : Yes, may Allah reward you with good.
Another questioner : Yesterday, the day before yesterday, in such piety, the Fajr prayer, a man in the mosque introduced me to a professor with a beard and a thobe, meaning a young man, may Allah be pleased with him. He said to me, I want to introduce you to our brother, I mean, I said to him, we have a young man in the mosque who gives us a word in the morning and we benefit from it, so come and listen to it. So he attended today to listen to you. He was pleased and said, may Allah reward you with good, meaning he was happy with you. But he had a specific question. I said to him, go ahead. He said to me, I work as a professor; this young man who came, attended, is a professor at our Shaykh's industrial college, the industrial college. He is a professor there for repairing radios and televisions, and they want to second him to another college for the deaf and mute, so that the deaf and mute, meaning the deaf and mute, repair televisions and radios, and he teaches them. So he says to me, is there something wrong with my job... I explained to him the explanation that you are explaining, meaning what we comprehend from you regarding
And cooperate in righteousness and piety, but do not cooperate in sin and aggression.
وَتَعَاوَنُوا عَلَى الْبِرِّ وَالتَّقْوَى وَلَا تَعَاوَنُوا عَلَى الْإِثْمِ وَالْعُدْوَانِfear Allah as much as you are able
اتَّقُوا اللَّهَ مَا اسْتَطَعْتُمْAnd whoever fears Allah - He will make for him a way out (3) And will provide for him from where he does not expect.
وَمَنْ يَتَّقِ اللَّهَ يَجْعَلْ لَهُ مَخْرَجًا * وَيَرْزُقْهُ مِنْ حَيْثُ لَا يَحْتَسِبُThe Shaykh : ... .
The questioner : Yes.
The Shaykh : You get money...
The questioner : And a young man, may Allah be pleased with him, my Shaykh.
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