Working in jobs related to non-financial Haram activities : designing job online shopping websites and payment methods

Fatawa Question

Assalamu Alaykum WA Rahmatullahi WA Barakatuh, I am an Egyptian software engineer , I with some colleagues constructed a software outsourcing company that outsource software abroad of Egypt in order to ultimately bring renaissances to our nation and compete with other countries like India. My question is that There are many projects that are proposed to us which is about designing online shopping websites, my problem is about implementing payments, there are many payment methods like checks, pay on delivery, but the most popular is unfortunately "credit cards" (like visa). -The question is it Haram to implement these websites including the part that collects payments throw credit cards ? -Another point, there are intermediate websites like www.paypal.com which collect money from the buyer and put it in the seller account (through different payment methods, the credit cards are the most used one of them too !) and this is implemented by putting a link to the intermediate website in the seller website, and this method does not require any credit card handling by the software engineer who implement the shopping website, is this method Haram or Shobha or Halal ?

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Publication Date

2007-02-14

Main Subjects

Economics & Business Administration
Islamic Studies

No. of Pages

2

Data Type

Fatawa

Language

English

Record ID

BIM-785373

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