Back to search
The question

Is it permissible to work as a network engineer for a company that provides hosting and data storage services (both permissible and impermissible), knowing that the nature of my work is technical and I have no relation to the content of the stored data, and that the parent company has a partnership in a pornographic website? And is it permissible to work there to gain experience in order to return to my home country?

Share this answer

Source: FtawySummary from Ftawy's records · added here Sep 2, 20261 min readAlso available in العربية
The answer

Allah Almighty has forbidden aiding a sinner in their sin, as He states: (And cooperate in righteousness and piety, but do not cooperate in sin and aggression). If the work necessitates aiding in something forbidden, such as pornographic websites, then it is forbidden. This is unless it is possible to restrict oneself to permissible websites. As an example, the Permanent Committee for Issuing Fatwas ruled that working in land distribution for an entity that grants usurious loans is not permissible, because it is cooperation in sin and aggression. And whoever abandons something for the sake of Allah, Allah will compensate them with something better. They should fear Allah, and Allah will provide them a way out and sustain them from where they do not expect. Gaining experience must be through permissible means, and safeguarding one's religion takes precedence.

Summary from Ftawy's records · added here

Reviewed by El Fatwa's sharia committee.

Read the full answer on Ftawy
Where this answer came from
Source platform
Ftawy
Original fatwa ID
19984
Added here
. This is when the answer was added to El Fatwa, not the fatwa's date.
Text
Summary from Ftawy's records, reviewed by El Fatwa's sharia committee.
Read the full ruling
Read the full answer on Ftawy