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Is working as a receptionist in a women's beauty salon forbidden (haram)?

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A man's work in a women's beauty salon is impermissible if it entails him seeing 'awraat (parts of the body that must be covered) and forbidden intermingling with women. The money earned from it is ill-gotten gain, for the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, said: "Every body that is nourished by unlawful earnings, the Fire is more befitting for it."

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