Is it forbidden to work for a commercial brokerage company that deals with factories producing satellite receivers, which may be used to receive "malicious" channels, especially if the satellite dish sector constitutes the largest part and I am responsible for it? And if it is forbidden, is it obligatory to dispose of everything I have purchased from this salary and leave the job immediately, considering that I have personal debts and installment payments for my apartment?
The ruling on selling a receiver varies according to the condition of the buyers. If it is known or highly probable that the buyer will use it for permissible purposes, then it is permissible to sell it to him. However, if it is known or highly probable that he will use it for impermissible purposes, then it is not permissible to sell it to him. If there is no prevailing assumption about its use, then it should not be sold to him, as the predominant use of such devices by people is for impermissible purposes.
If you cannot control the buying and selling of these devices according to the aforementioned regulations, then you are not permitted to continue in this line of work, as it aids in sin and aggression.
As for the salary obtained from this work, there are specific fatwas regarding it. Debts do not permit what is forbidden unless they reach a state of necessity where one fears an unbearable hardship and there is no way to avert it except through what is forbidden.
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