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Is the current job as an accountant in a company that leases its properties for activities that may include selling alcohol permissible (halal), and is it permissible to transfer to work in a commercial bank or a commercial insurance company on the grounds that the impermissibility (haram) might be the same, but with a higher salary and greater stability?

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Working in the aforementioned company is permissible if it is limited to lawful transactions, even if the company is part of a bank, though it is preferable to avoid it. However, if the work involves assisting in prohibited transactions, such as leasing to usurious institutions, or places that sell forbidden items, or engaging in immorality, then it is forbidden. If the work necessitates engaging in forbidden matters, then it is obligatory to leave it and seek permissible work. It is not permissible to replace one forbidden act with another, and there is no good in a forbidden salary. Whoever abandons something for the sake of Allah, Allah will compensate him with something better. It is not permissible to work in a usurious bank or a commercial insurance company due to a high salary or parental insistence, because there is no obedience to a creature in disobedience to the Creator.

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