Is it permissible to work as a computer engineer for an American company (originally British) registered in Saudi Arabia, specializing in auditing accounts and providing financial and administrative consultations to Saudi companies, and which transfers a portion of its profits to the parent company in America?
The company's work is divided into two parts: auditing legitimate companies and Islamic banks, or auditing companies whose field of work is forbidden and usurious banks.
- If the company's work is specialized in permissible companies, then there is no harm in working for it. - If its work is specialized in forbidden companies and usurious banks, then working for it is forbidden. - If the company works with both, there is no harm in working for it in what is permissible, or in providing services to the legitimate companies it deals with. It is not affected by the company being a branch of a foreign company or owned by non-Muslims, as the determining factor is the field of work.
It is permissible to deal with disbelievers in matters that have not been proven to be forbidden, unless the sale assists them in forbidden acts.
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