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    Question ID: 21681Country: United Kingdom

    Title: My question is regarding alcohol. As in London in super stores if we work we need to serve alcohol like puting them in the shelf. In restaurants we need to serve them to Non-muslims and to few Muslims if they drink. So is I am allowed to work in the Superstores or in restaurants like dat?

    Question: My question is regarding alcohol. As in London in super stores if we work we need to serve alcohol like puting them in the shelf. In restaurants we need to serve them to Non-muslims and to few Muslims if they drink. So is I am allowed to work in the Superstores or in restaurants like dat?

    Answer ID: 21681

    Bismillah hir-Rahman nir-Rahim !

    (Fatwa: 663/502/D=1431)

    While doing job in supper stores of London, since you have to offer alcohol to Muslim and non-Muslim for drinking; hence it is not lawful due to helping in sins.
    وَلاَ تَعَاوَنُواْ عَلَى الإِثْمِ وَالْعُدْوَانِ [المائدة : 2]

    Allah (Subhana Wa Ta'ala) knows Best

    Darul Ifta,

    Darul Uloom Deoband, India