If a craftsman is asked to make a door for a place where Allah the Exalted is disobeyed, and he knows this, is it permissible for him to make it?

The questioner : Our Shaykh, on the same topic, may Allah reward you with good. You mentioned that seeking lawful sustenance is among the obligatory matters for the Muslim.

The Shaykh: Yes.

The questioner : And there is an important matter that many Muslims are unaware of. Allah Mighty and Majestic says: So some Muslims do a lawful job, but it involves assisting in what is forbidden. For example, some work in iron, making doors, and the shop that wants to have one made is a forbidden place. So, if he makes a door for that shop, does he commit a sin? May Allah reward you with good.

The Shaykh : The answer lies in the verse you mentioned, and this is what we have addressed in explaining it on many, many occasions. Whoever carries only alcohol in his car is cursed, by the explicit text of the hadith of the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him), who said: and he mentioned among them . This hadith is one of many, many hadiths that explain the second part of the verse he mentioned.The questioner : just now, namely His saying, Blessed and Exalted is He: So the one who carries alcohol to the taverns, for example, has assisted the alcoholics in drinking alcohol, just as he assisted the tavern keeper in selling alcohol, and so on. Therefore, the work whose origin is permissible, as stated in the question and the answer, is the carrying itself. This carrying, whether by car or by animal, is permissible in itself as a paid service. However, the criterion, as he (peace and blessings be upon him) said on another occasion: So what is the destination of this load on this vehicle, which is a car, for example? Its destination is to reach the taverns, assisting the alcoholics in drinking it. Likewise, the one who carries people, women or men, to cinemas, bars, or forbidden entertainment venues, all of this is not permissible, because it contradicts the noble verse: The research on this is extensive and very extensive. And it is perhaps important, given that the masses of people today, especially the merchants among them, fall into contradicting the following hadith, namely his saying (peace and blessings be upon him): And what about the witness and the scribe? The answer is in the verse: Therefore, many merchants who think of themselves as among the righteous servants of Allah, think that when they deposit their money in banks and do not take riba, they have done well. No, and no! They have done badly. Why? Because they assisted the bank in eating riba. And the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him), as you heard, says: meaning: feeding it to another. So this merchant, or these merchants who deposit their money in banks, even if they are sincere in their claim that they do not take riba, it is sufficient for them as a sin that they are making those who work in the bank eat riba. And the meaning of this statement is also that it is not permissible for a Muslim to be an employee in a bank, even if he is the janitor, or the sweeper, or the garbage collector. Do you understand this statement? It means the least

Another questioner : The guard.

The Shaykh : No, I brought it as a humble example, the lowest employee. As for the guard, that is what Allah willed. Therefore, any employee in a bank, from the manager to the sweeper, is included in this Quranic text and then the Prophetic hadith .
Of course, now there are types of cooperation in the bank, so the types are not limited to the scribe and the witness. Now, there is no need for witnesses at all; because the group organized their affairs according to Western law, which does not forbid or permit, as Allah Mighty and Majestic said in the noble Quran: . The research on this is very long, and there are types of hadiths that are very terrible, all of which converge on a very important point, which is that it is not permissible for a Muslim to be an assistant to another in committing a wrong. And this is sufficient.