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What is the ruling on working in a tourist hotel as a baggage handler, a job that may involve carrying alcoholic beverages, knowing that this work may sometimes prevent one from performing Friday prayer, and that leaving this job may cause disagreement with one's mother?

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Working in tourist hotels and similar establishments is a breeding ground for sin due to the permissibility of forbidden things such as alcohol, pork, nudity, and immodesty, and some of them are dens of iniquity. A worker in them cannot escape seeing, carrying, or hearing forbidden things. It is not permissible to carry alcohol, as the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, said: "Alcohol has been cursed in ten ways: by its essence, its presser, its extractor, its seller, its buyer, its carrier, the one to whom it is carried, the one who consumes its price, its drinker, and its pourer." It is also not permissible to work in a job that prevents one from attending Friday prayer unless absolutely necessary. Obedience to parents is in what is good, and the mother must be convinced gently of the necessity of leaving this forbidden work immediately.

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