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What is the ruling on working as an accountant, which requires preparing accounts and tax refund claims and providing financial advice to clients who request manipulation of figures to reduce taxes, knowing that most of them deal in usury and the accounting firm forces the accountant to comply with their demands?

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Source: FtawySummary from Ftawy's records · added here Sep 2, 20261 min readAlso available in العربية
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This work involves assisting customers in lying and affirming their usurious transactions, as well as documenting usury. There is a prohibition against cooperating in sin and aggression. The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) cursed the one who consumes Riba (usury), the one who pays it, the one who writes it down, and its two witnesses. Therefore, one should seek work that is free from abominations, or search for another job if that is not possible.

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