Is it permissible to work for a company that mixes its operations between producing alcoholic beverages and soft drinks, especially if the two companies are in one place and the employee may see colleagues consuming alcohol?
Working in a company that produces soft drinks and alcoholic beverages in the same location is forbidden due to the abandonment of enjoining good and forbidding evil. However, if the two branches are completely separate, and the soft drink production line is not used for alcoholic beverages, then it is permissible to work in the soft drink branch. But if there are refrigerators containing alcoholic beverages available to employees in this branch, then working there is not permissible, based on the saying of the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him: "Whoever believes in Allah and the Last Day, let him not sit at a table where alcoholic beverages are being consumed." If there is no place separate from the consumption of alcoholic beverages, then working is not permissible except out of dire necessity that permits the forbidden.
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