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Is it permissible for a foreign wife in a restaurant in a tourist country, which only foreigners enter, to serve alcoholic beverages and take her profit from them, while the husband's work is limited to serving food and he takes his profit only from it?

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Selling alcohol is impermissible because the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, said: "Allah has cursed alcohol, its drinker, its server, its seller, its buyer, its presser, the one for whom it is pressed, its carrier, and the one to whom it is carried." The price of alcohol is also forbidden, as the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, said: "Indeed, when Allah forbids a thing, He also forbids consuming its price." There is no difference in the prohibition between selling it oneself or through an agent, and one must stay away from environments where alcohol is traded.

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