Is money earned from designing a website for a provider of permissible services considered unlawful if the service provider deals with entities that engage in prohibited activities (such as cleaning places where alcohol is sold or selling doors for liquor stores), given that the designer does not deal directly with those entities, and does he bear sin for that?
Source: FtawySummary from Ftawy's records · added here Sep 2, 2026
There is no harm in creating a website whose work is permissible. The sin of using the website for what is forbidden falls upon its owner, because "Every soul, for what it has earned, will be retained," and "no bearer of burdens will bear the burden of another."
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