My question to you is that i am a student living in australia i also drive cabs part time i want to ask you brother that some times we have to leave passengers to bars,clubs,pubs,and some times to brothels and some times we have to pick them up also when we get a job from there is it haraam to do so? because we do not tell them to go there and we cannot refuse to take them if they ask us to take them there because of the taxi cab laws as you would know people catch cabs in the western world when they are going to drink or come back from home.what should the muslim cab drivers do so in this situation?
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A taxi driver takes some people to haraam places
Question: 10398
Answer
Praise be to Allah, and peace and blessings be upon the Messenger of Allah and his family.
Undoubtedly this is considered to be co-operating in sin and transgression. We advise you not to take these people to brothels, places or corruption and bars. You will find other people. This applies whether you are taking them from these places or to them. Whoever fears Allah and keeps his duty towards Him (taqwa), Allah will grant him a way out, so look for other passengers from other places. If it so happens that you take on these passengers and you did not know that this is where they were headed, then we do not say that the fare is haraam for you, because it is compensation for your efforts, or for the use of your car.
Shaykh ‘Abd-Allah ibn Jibreen.
If you think that you are obliged to so something haraam in your work, then look for other work. We ask Allah to make your provision halaal. May Allah bless our Prophet Muhammad
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Sheikh Muhammed Salih Al-Munajjid
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