Is it permissible to designate a place within a restaurant for customers to drink alcohol, knowing that the restaurant itself does not serve alcohol to customers?
It is not permissible for a Muslim to indicate a place where alcoholic beverages are consumed, due to the generality of Allah's saying: "And do not cooperate in sin and aggression," whether for Muslims or for disbelievers, because disbelievers are addressed by the branches of Islamic law. It is not permissible to sell alcohol because the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, said: "Allah has cursed alcohol and its drinker, its pourer, its seller, its buyer, its presser, its server, its carrier, the one to whom it is carried, and the one who consumes its price." Indicating a place where alcoholic beverages are consumed and sold are equal in sin. It is advised to move the restaurant to a place where Muslims are more numerous or to change the line of work to avoid prohibitions.
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