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Is it permissible to work as a tour guide transporting young people to places of prohibitions in order to earn money, without participating in the prohibitions themselves?

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It is forbidden for a Muslim to assist anyone in sinning against Allah, due to His saying: {And cooperate in righteousness and piety, but do not cooperate in sin and aggression.} (Quran 5:2). For this reason, everyone who aids in the production or consumption of alcohol is cursed, and selling weapons to someone who will use them in unlawful fighting is prohibited. As for the work of a taxi driver, it is originally permissible unless it involves forbidden acts, such as transporting non-mahram women or carrying people to places of immorality and alcohol consumption. Therefore, transporting someone whom you know or strongly suspect is going to a place of sin to commit disobedience against Allah there, is forbidden. However, if you do not know this about the person, then transporting them is permissible. The majority of scholars stipulated, regarding the prohibition of selling juice to someone who will make wine from it, that the seller must know the buyer's intention, while the Shafi'is sufficed with strong suspicion. If the seller does not know the buyer's situation or is in doubt, the majority permits it, while the Shafi'is deem it disliked. In summary: It is not permissible to transport someone whom you know is going to places of sin, and whoever gives up something for the sake of Allah, Allah will compensate him with something better.

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