He is working in a store and is afraid that they will ask him to carry pork to the trucks
Question: 85191
I am a Muslim man working in a western country. I work in a firm that distributes food products to different shops and markets. We move the products from the firm to the trucks to be distributed. Food products such as vegetables, fruits, milk and meat. Sometimes we are asked to move the pork meat to the trucks. So we have to collect it and carry it to the trucks. My question is: what is the ruling on my work? Knowing that the other job opportunities in restaurants offer different dishes that contain pork meat.
Praise be to Allah, and peace and blessings be upon the Messenger of Allah and his family.
It is not permissible to sell pork or to receive payment for
carrying it, or to help with it in any way, because the Prophet (peace
and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said: “Allaah and His Messenger have
forbidden the sale of alcohol, dead meat, pork and idols.”
And Allaah says (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]
The same applies to everything that is proven to be haraam:
it is not permissible to help with it, such as serving alcohol or dead meat,
or the meat of domestic donkeys, in restaurants or elsewhere.
Allaah says (interpretation of the meaning):
“Forbidden to you (for food) are: Al‑Maitah (the dead
animals — cattle — beast not slaughtered), blood, the flesh of swine, and
that on which Allaah’s Name has not been mentioned while slaughtering (that
which has been slaughtered as a sacrifice for others than Allaah, or has
been slaughtered for idols) and that which has been killed by strangling, or
by a violent blow, or by a headlong fall, or by the goring of horns — and
that which has been (partly) eaten by a wild animal — unless you are able to
slaughter it (before its death)”
[al-Maa’idah 5:3]
What the Muslim has to do is fear Allaah and look for halaal
income, and avoid haraam income. Every body that is nourished by haraam
things, the Fire is more befitting for it, as the Prophet (peace and
blessings of Allaah be upon him) said: “Every body that is nourished by
haraam things, the Fire is more befitting for it.” Narrated by al-Tabaraani
and Abu Nu’aym from Abu Bakr (may Allaah be pleased with him); classed as
saheeh by al-Albaani in Saheeh al-Jaami’ (no. 4519).
The scholars of the Standing Committee for Issuing Fatwas
were asked about working in restaurants where alcohol and pork are served.
They replied: It is haraam to work and earn money by helping
in the consumption of haraam things such as alcohol and pork, and the
payment received for that is also haraam, because this is cooperating in sin
and transgression, which Allaah has forbidden as He says (interpretation of
the meaning): “do not help one another in sin and transgression”. We
advise you to keep away from working in this restaurant and similar places,
because that will mean avoiding helping with something that Allaah has
forbidden.
Fataawa al-Lajnah al-Daa’imah
(13/49).
To sum up: there is nothing wrong with you working in this
store, so long as you do not help with anything haraam by selling it,
collecting it, carrying it or any other kind of help.
And Allaah knows best.
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