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Working on a program which helps with the running of a supermarket, which includes sale of alcohol

Question: 106422

I recently completed my studies and am working as a programmer for a French company which has administrative offices in Morocco. I took a training course so that I could start work on 15/08/2007. The problem is that I found out only today that I will be working on a program to with administration for a supermarket whose products include alcohol. They told me that I have nothing to do with the sale of alcohol, which is one of the company’s products and is sold in France. I will only receive information and numbers and so on, which I have to process as is required of me, and that is information about various food products. I hope that you can advise me as to whether there is anything wrong with me staying in this job or do I have to leave it? Please note that I signed a contract which obliges me to pay three months salary if I decide to leave the job. If I have to leave this job, can I work for three months so as to pay the company what it is entitled to?.

Praise be to Allah, and peace and blessings be upon the Messenger of Allah and his family.

With regard to alcohol, it is not permissible to drink it,
carry it, sell it, buy it or help with it in any way whatsoever, such as
documenting it or recording it in a book or on a computer, because of the
warning and curse which is mentioned concerning it, as it was narrated by
Abu Dawood (3674) and Ibn Maajah (3380) that Ibn ‘Umar (may Allaah be
pleased with him) said: The Messenger of Allaah (blessings and peace of
Allaah be upon him) said: “May Allaah curse wine, the one who drinks it, the
one who pours it, the one who sells it, the one who buys it, the one who
squeezes (the grapes etc), the one for whom it is squeezed, the one who
carries it and the one to whom it is carried.” Classed as saheeh by
al-Albaani in Saheeh Abi Dawood.  

If part of your job is to record or process things that have
to do with alcohol, it is not permissible for you to do that. 

But if you can work and avoid anything that has to do with
alcohol so that others can deal with that, there is nothing wrong with it.
It is not permissible for them to force you to pay three months salary,
because your leaving the job is only because of them; they are the ones who
have transgressed the sacred limits of Allaah and disobeyed Him. 

If you cannot find any way to disassociate from them and you
do not have any money with which to pay this amount, and that would result
in great harm such as imprisonment, then you are being forced to do that,
and there is no sin on you if you work with them for three months. But if
your not paying this money will not result in any major harm, then do not
work with them, because in that case you are not being forced. 

We ask Allaah to bless you with halaal provision and
beneficial work, and to increase you in knowledge and guidance.  

And Allaah knows best.

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