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Does the husband's work as a government accountant and tax collector for nightclubs—with his exposure to dancers and nude women, and his susceptibility to temptation—make his work permissible or forbidden?

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There is no doubt that the ruler's licensing of nightclubs is a clear sin and a grave burden, and he is obligated to prevent them and punish their perpetrators, not to license them and collect taxes from them. This is akin to accepting the dowry of a prostitute. Therefore, the Muslim ruler must govern worldly affairs according to religion and abolish these nightclubs. The job of a nightclub tax collector is a forbidden occupation, and its wages are vile, illicit gain, due to the approval of vice and presence in places of immorality that it entails. She must advise her husband to leave this job, and it is not permissible for her to consume the money derived from it because it is ill-gotten gain.

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