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Working in Stores Selling Haraam

Answered as per Hanafi Fiqh by Mahmoodiyah

Question:

As salaam Alaikum

 

Bismillahir Rahmanir Rahim

 

Dear Brother, My age is 20 I and Indian national by birth but Alhamdulillah lived my life in Saudi Arabia , now currently I am in London for my further studies . I live with my friends, as to live here and overcome the high cost we students have to work , they work in Mc Donald ( an fast food restaurant ) , I started working with them but after some months from the blessing of Allah Subhanahu wa ta ‘Aala Alhamdulillah a thought cam to my mind that the work I am doing is Haraam so my earning will also be Haraam .!

 

1.

The work done by every employee is basically of two types

       (1)   Cooking food :  i.e. Ham , Beef , chicken, fries fish and vegetable burger ( all of them Haraam )

        (2)   Working On till : over here I have to sell these products to the customers, some of which are Muslims too.

 

I asked many people back in Saudi and they told me to stop working there as it is Haraam . and now Alhamdulillah I am not working , My friends are still working there and when I stop them they say that we are not selling it ,we are not getting the profit ..and so… I need your help in this matter .

 

2.

Is it Halaal to work here ?

 

As the big stores in Saudi Arabia like Watani , Bin Dawood etc Stores here in UK are namely Tesco , Sainsbury , Marks and Spenser  they all contain Food products of which

98% are Haraam they also sell Alcohols in bottle, and other kitchen items .

work here done is

     (1)   On till ( Cashier ) : like in other store in Saudi but the difference is there they clear( swipe out and take money)  Halaal products and here it is Haraam as well as Alcohols.

     (2)   Shelf stocking : To stock up the products including Alcohol and the food Materials.

 

The reason to explain the different type of work done in the company is , they say that if cooking is Haraam we will work on till etc…

 

Please Help me … May Allah Subhanahu wa ta ‘Aala Give you all, place in Jannat al Firdous Insha-Allah.


Answer:

 

                  

 

It will not be permissible to work in Mc Donald’s or any of the chain stores mentioned in your question.

It has been mentioned in a Hadith narrated by Ibni Umar (R.A.) that: “Nabi (S.A.W.) cursed wine, the persons who drinks it, the one who serves it, the one who sells and buys it, the one squeezes the wine and the one for whom it is being squeezed, the one who carries it and the one for whom it is been carried.”  (Abu Dawood)

It is worse when a person has to sell the Haraam products including Alcohol to fellow Muslims. (Abu Dawood, Hadith 3674. Buhoothun Fi Qadhaayaa Fiqhiyyah Mu’aasarah, Page.338)    

And Allah Ta’ala knows best

Ilyaas bin Hashim Limbada

Attested to as correct by:

Mufti Muhammad Ashraf

Darul Iftaa

Jameah Mahmoodiyah

Springs

13 August 2004

26 Jumaadul Ukhraa 1425

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