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What is the ruling on a wife working in a restaurant that serves alcoholic beverages and haram meats due to necessity and her need to help her family?

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A woman working in mixed environments where men and women intermingle is impermissible due to the great harms involved, especially if the place offers forbidden things. She must leave it and search for another job that meets the Islamic conditions for women's work. The husband is advised to hasten his wife's transfer from these harms to her home.

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