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Is it haram to work in a grocery store where some alcohol is sold?

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asslamualikum janab mufti sahab I want to work in a grocery store in U.S where maximum number of things sold is halal, and a few quantity of alcohal is sold in that store. My job will be to clean the floor and to place all the things of the floor( including alcohal cans) to proper place . Does this job is haram ,as iam not directly related to alcohalic business. please give me the answer, i will be very greatfull to u. Can I work in pizza hut , where i have to touch pork to make pizza.

Answer

(Fatwa: 676/671=M)

(1) In this case, in your work include only cleaning the floor and placing the thing including alcohol to proper place then it is allowed; since these actions involve no sin, such instances are found in the books of scholars of Fiqh:

و جاز تعمیر کنیسۃ و قال ابن عابدین قولہ جاز تعمیر کنیسۃ قال فی الخانیۃ: و لو آجر نفسہ لیعمل فی الکنیسۃ و یعمرھا لا بأس بہ لأنہ لا معصیۃ فی نفس العمل

(2) It is unlawful to touch pork to make pizza; since it is helping in sin and polluting yourself with impure thing; therefore it is not right for you to work in a pizza hut.

Allah (Subhana Wa Ta’ala) knows Best

Darul Ifta,
Darul Uloom Deoband

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