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He has an internet café and is asking about his income

Question: 82873

I am a young Muslim man, praise be to Allaah. I have a shop for internet access, and I do not know whether everything that I earn from it is dubious or not. Please note that I want to get married and do Hajj using this money, in sha Allaah.

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

If it is
possible to control what happens in the internet café and prevent evil,
there is nothing wrong with opening it and the income that results from that
is halaal. But if it is not possible to control it and the customers use it
for things that Allaah has forbidden, such as looking at haraam things and
doing evil things – as is the case with most such cafes and their customers
– then it is not permissible to open it and the income that results from it
is haraam. In that case you have to change the place to another project in
which there is no sin and you can earn a halaal income from it, which will
help you to worship Allaah by going for Hajj, getting married, etc. 

See also the
answer to question no.
34672
 

The Standing
Committee for Issuing Fatwas was asked a detailed question about internet
cafes, which we will quote here: 

Question:
There is a lot of talk nowadays about Internet cafes which have become
widespread recently. What is the ruling on investing and dealing in these
cafes? Knowing that there are some harmful and haraam things, as follows: 

1 – The user
rents a computer by the hour, although we do not know what the user is going
to use the internet for. There are many programs and sites which the user
can access, some of which are beneficial and some are harmful. There are
some sites which the King ‘Abd al-‘Azeez Science and Technology City can
control and block, but there are some users who are able to enter the
forbidden sites anyway. 

Please note
that we cannot control the programs except by cancelling the service. 

2 – There is
a program called Microsoft Chat, which is for chatting and corresponding,
through which users can exchange bad language and foul talk, and they can
send and receive pornographic pictures and movies. It is possible to control
the sending and receiving of pictures and movies, but there are some people
who can break these controls in devious ways. 

Answer: If
this equipment can be used for false and evil ends, which will harm Islamic
beliefs or enable people to look at permissive pictures and movies, or news
of immoral entertainment, or to have dubious conversations and play haraam
games, and the owner of the café cannot prevent these evils or control the
machines, then in that case it is haraam for him to deal in that, because
this is helping in sin and haraam things, and Allaah, may He be glorified
and exalted, says in His holy Book (interpretation of the meaning): 

“Help you
one another in Al‑Birr and At‑Taqwa (virtue, righteousness and piety); but
do not help one another in sin and transgression. And fear Allaah. Verily,
Allaah is Severe in punishment”

[al-Maa’idah 5:2]

And Allaah
is the Source of strength. End quote from Fataawa al-Lajnah al-Daa’imah
(26/284) 

And Allaah
knows best.

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