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Is there any doubt concerning the money earned by a female pharmacist who works for a pharmaceutical company that uses animal derivatives in its products, which the questioner deems forbidden? And why do Islamic governments not pressure foreign pharmaceutical companies to respect Sharia regulations?

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If the aforementioned materials are derived from animal sources, their ruling is the same as that of gelatin. And if we assume that all of them are forbidden, then only some of the company's medicines will contain forbidden substances, not all of them, because medicines are not limited to these types; rather, many of them are permissible with no issue. Thus, the pharmacist's money would be mixed. The preponderant opinion is that it is permissible to deal with someone whose money is mixed, though it is disliked, with the degree of dislike varying according to the proportion of the forbidden within it.

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