Ruling on working in a cafe which allows smoking and in which football (soccer) matches are shown on TV

Question: 118353

I was asked to work running a cafe (coffee shop) by writing all the details of the meals, juices and drinks and the kinds of equipment used, and to make up something like a constitution or to write down the system for this cafe on paper. That is so that this same idea, service and quality can be used when opening another branch of this cafe. What is the ruling on working in this job, knowing that the cafe allows smoking and there is also a projector for showing local and foreign football matches?.

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

There is nothing wrong with working in restaurants and cafes
in principle, as food and drinks are prepared in them and offered to the
customers. It is only haraam to work in them if these places include things
which are not permissible, such as:

1.If they offer food and drink
that is forbidden according to sharee’ah, such as pork and alcoholic drinks,
or if shisha is offered there.

2.If things that are not
permissible to be shown are shown there, such as movies, songs and programs
in which there is uncovering of ‘awrahs, such as sports matches and
wrestling matches.

3.If they allow customers to
smoke.

Thus it is clear that working in the cafe described in the
question is permissible in principle, but this permission is cancelled out
by the fact that customers can watch sports matches in which ‘awrahs are
uncovered, and by the fact that it also allows smoking. The people in charge
should prevent these haraam things, but if they do not and they use allowing
things as a means of attracting customers to the cafe, then working in this
cafe is haraam.

With regard to working running a cafe, please see the answer
to question number 47396.
With regard to the ruling on watching sports matches and sports channels,
please see the answer to question number
95280 and
82718.

And Allah knows best.

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