Is the garbage collector sinful if he finds empty alcohol bottles among the waste he collects?
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There is no sin in throwing away an empty alcohol bottle, and you are not included in the warning mentioned in the : "May Allah curse 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."
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