What is the ruling on working for a public authority specialized in tourism development that requires organizing survey work, identifying locations, and handing over lands to investors, given that one sheikh issued a fatwa permitting it, while the Fatwa Committee issued a fatwa prohibiting the work of a colleague who inspects tourist establishments that include swimming pools, bars, and discotheques?
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Your work in the aforementioned committee is impermissible, for it involves aiding in evil and striving to facilitate its existence. Your not directly committing the evil does not absolve you of sin, due to Allah's saying: "And cooperate in righteousness and piety, but do not cooperate in sin and aggression." What this committee is doing is a step towards establishing places of amusement and immorality.
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