What is the ruling on renting out a shop to be used as a photography studio that takes pictures for licenses and personal IDs, in addition to photographing weddings and the accompanying photography of adorned women, with parts of their bodies showing, and video-recording wedding parties in different locations and preparing them on tapes or CDs? And what should be done if the rental is impermissible (haram) and there is still time remaining on the contract, and what is the ruling on the money previously earned from it?
It is not permissible to rent a place to someone who will use it for sinful acts, such as photographing prohibited wedding parties, due to the general prohibition against cooperating in sin and aggression. Moreover, the majority of jurists do not permit renting out a house for an unlawful purpose. If it is impossible to terminate the contract, then the landlord must repent and advise the tenant, and should not abandon taking the rent, but rather benefit from it, because not all of the tenant's actions are forbidden. This is similar to the ruling on someone whose wealth is mixed (with lawful and unlawful sources), where dealing with him is not prohibited.
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