Working in firms that produces sells prohibited items as main line of business : assignment on a production machine for tobacco

Fatawa Question

Sorry for writing in English as I can't type in Arabic well ! I have an inquiry about my brother's work. He is a religious young man, recently graduated from faculty of engineering and now works for a reputable company. He was assigned for working in one of the projects in this company, which will take, at least 5 months to be done. The problem is that this project is in for the benefit of one of the Cigarette companies in Egypt. He feels that this is (Haram), especially that he works in the maintenance of the factories machines, so it's going to be a permanent and continuous guilt. He discussed this with the manager and he told him that he can't leave the project and it has to be done first before moving to any other mission inside the company. So I wonder what should he do ? And is it proper for him to continue working for this company especially that he is going to gain a great experience from this project, or shall he just move from this company searching for another job ? Jazakom Allah Khairan Notes He has left a job before for another reason similar to this and he will be assigned to another project just after this project, but is this (Haram) to continue in this project till it finishes ? IS this a (Sayyi’a Jariyya) permanent sin because it related to a machine working all the time in producing cigarette ?

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Publication Date

2002-11-28

Main Subjects

Marketing
Islamic Studies

Topics

• Islamic jurisprudence
• Sales
• Tobacco

No. of Pages

2

Data Type

Fatawa

Language

English

Record ID

BIM-725007

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