Working for a company that practices cheating and forgery

28-6-2010 | IslamWeb

Question:

ASSALAMO ALIKUM! SIR, I WORK IN AN ORGANIZATION AS ACCOUNTS ASSISTANT (& CONVERTING MANUAL ACCOUNTS TO COMPUTERIZED ACCOUNTING). IN THIS ORGANIZATION GOODS/SPARE PARTS OF VARIOUS BRANDS ARE IMPORTED. IN OUR ORGANIZATION, THE OWNERS SELL THE INFERIOR QUALITY (NON GEN) GOODS AS GENUINE BRAND IN PACKING OF GENUINE BRANDS AND THIS PACKING IS PREPARED LOCALLY. NOW, MY CONCERN IS IF MY EARNINGS ARE HALAAL? AND IF NOT (I.E IS HARAM) THEN WHAT ABOUT THE SO FAR SALARIES DRAWN AND THINGS PURCHASED FROM THIS MONEY.
Answer:

All perfect praise be to Allaah, The Lord of the Worlds. I testify that there is none worthy of worship except Allaah, and that Muhammad sallallaahu `alayhi wa sallam ( may Allaah exalt his mention ) is His slave and Messenger.

 

What this company is doing is nothing but forbidden cheating, unlawful forgery and consuming people’s money without right, so it must stop doing so.

Therefore, if the work of the company is based on this cheating, then it is not permissible for you to work for it as an accountant or in any other job as this is helping them in sin and transgression because Allaah forbade cooperating in sin and transgressions as He Says (what means): {Help you one another in virtue, righteousness and piety but do not help one another in sin and transgression. And fear Allaah. Verily, Allaah is Severe in punishment.}[Quran 5:2]

Since working for this company is forbidden, then the salary taken from it is ill-gotten money. Therefore, you are obliged to abandon working for this company unless its owners stop cheating, forgery and consuming people’s money without right.
As regards the items and the like that you purchased with the salary, or the money that you still have from previous salaries, then it is permissible for you to benefit from it as you did not know the ruling on that job; so you are excused as Allaah Says (what means): {So whoever has received an admonition from his Lord and desists may have what is past, and his affair rests with Allaah.}[Quran 2:275]

Allaah Knows best.

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