Is it permissible for an accountant to fulfill the request of the owner of an establishment to enter indirect administrative expenses into projects without the knowledge of the partners, given the accountant's awareness of the suspicion of unlawfulness and the employer's affirmation of bearing the sin, and knowing that this work is his sole source of income?
If the indirect expenses are related to the project, then all partners bear them according to their capital contributions, and the institution is not obliged to fulfill the condition of bearing them.
However, if they are not related to the project, it is impermissible to charge them to it, even if the partners agree. This is because it would assign a fixed sum of money to one of the partners, which invalidates the partnership, as Ibn Qudamah said: "It is not permissible to assign a fixed sum of money to any of the partners... whenever a partner's share is made a fixed sum of money... the partnership is nullified."
Therefore, one must abandon this work, as it involves aiding in a forbidden transaction, deception, and unlawfully consuming the partners' wealth. The manager's statement does not absolve you of sin, for Allah says: "And cooperate in righteousness and piety, but do not cooperate in sin and aggression." There is no obedience to a created being in disobedience to the Creator. It is permissible to remain in the job only out of dire necessity, while actively seeking another permissible employment.
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