Working in banks and banking institutions : working in a bank

Fatawa Question

Assalam U Alikum, Hope and pray that you are in the best of health. According to the attached text it says that working even in an IT dept of bank is prohibited i.e. not allowed as you are helping / assisting them. What I would like to ask you is that, “if a persons works for a IT company, let say Avaya reseller (PABX, IVR, CMS etc.) or cisco reseller (router and switches) and he is promoted and appointed as a Key project / account manager for a conventional bank i.e. to mange and administer projects and he will have to sit in that bank premises but his salary would be coming from the Avaya / cisco reseller then is it allowed in Islam ? B) if the person is working in a place where his work is some how related or the salary which he is earning is interest based then if the above job is not allowed can he for interim period switch to the above job till the time being he gets a better job ? In this way at least he will be saved from being actually a part of the interest team ? C) In Pakistan you might have an idea that as per these days banking industries are booming and the major buyers of IT products are financial companies (institutions) so in this way how can one working in a it company run his business if he is not supporting these institution as other then these institution no one is interested in buying such expensive products and the only reason for banks to buy is because of compliance and standard so in this way is a job of a person who is working for a reseller getting salary from a reseller, but supporting a bank Halal ? Even is he has to sit in that bank ? The text which I have forwarded to you is from the following website. Regards,

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Publication Date

2007-03-29

Main Subjects

Economics & Business Administration
Islamic Studies

No. of Pages

1

Data Type

Fatawa

Language

English

Record ID

BIM-785396

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