Ruling on selling magazines in which there are haraam adverts and half-naked pictures
Question: 22404
Can you please tell me is it ok for me to buy a business either a gas station or a convenient store, in which i have to sell cigarettes, kaffir magazine in which there will be picture of half naked girls adds of alcohol haraam stocks and other haraam things, or how about just working in such a store, is my income halaal or haraam. if in a case where my income is haraam what could i do to make my income Halaal, if i stop selling cigarettes and the magazine does then my income become halaal? and when i sell gas i have to charge taxes, because that’s the law of the country in which i am living?
Praise be to Allah, and peace and blessings be upon the Messenger of Allah and his family.
It is not permissible to sell haraam things
such as cigarettes, promiscuous magazines or magazines that promote evil,
even if they are published by Muslims, because when Allaah forbids a thing
He also forbids its price. It is not permissible to work for these magazines
because this is a kind of cooperating in sin and transgression. The income
from such sales is haraam. A person has to fear Allaah with regard to his
food and drink and all his spending. Selling gas is permissible, and there
is nothing wrong with it. If the taxes are compulsory then the one who is
forced to do a thing will be forgiven.
Source:
Shaykh ‘Abd al-Kareem al-Khudayr
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