Conditions for Working in Advocacy
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Question:
Working as a lawyer may expose a person to supporting evil and defending it, because the lawyer seeks, for example, the acquittal of the guilty party he is defending. Is the lawyer’s earnings from this forbidden? And are there Islamic conditions for a person to work as a lawyer?
Answer:
Advocacy is a form of protection. If the protection is of evil and a defense of it, there is no doubt that it is forbidden, because it falls under what Allah has prohibited in His saying:[Al-Ma'idah 5:2]. But if advocacy is for the protection of good and its defense, then it is praiseworthy protection, commanded by Allah the Exalted in His saying: [Al-Ma'idah: 2].
Working as a lawyer may expose a person to supporting evil and defending it, because the lawyer seeks, for example, the acquittal of the guilty party he is defending. Is the lawyer’s earnings from this forbidden? And are there Islamic conditions for a person to work as a lawyer?
Answer:
Advocacy is a form of protection. If the protection is of evil and a defense of it, there is no doubt that it is forbidden, because it falls under what Allah has prohibited in His saying:
but do not cooperate in sin and aggression
وَلاَ تَعَاوَنُواْ عَلَى الإِثْمِ وَالْعُدْوَانِAnd cooperate in righteousness and piety, but do not cooperate in sin and aggression.
وَتَعَاوَنُواْ عَلَى الْبرِّ وَالتَّقْوَى وَلاَ تَعَاوَنُواْ عَلَى الإِثْمِ وَالْعُدْوَانِ
Source
binbaz.org.sa
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