{"id":2400,"date":"2020-01-22T08:36:53","date_gmt":"2020-01-22T06:36:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/themufti.com\/?p=2400"},"modified":"2020-01-22T08:36:54","modified_gmt":"2020-01-22T06:36:54","slug":"working-as-a-security-guard-for-a-supermarket-selling-alcohol-and-pork","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/?p=2400","title":{"rendered":"Working as a security guard for a supermarket selling alcohol and pork"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><strong>Working as a security guard for a supermarket selling alcohol and pork<\/strong><\/h4>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Q. Can a Muslim work as a security guard for a non-Muslim owned supermarket or to provided them with security services that mostly sells groceries etc. with some alcohol and pork as well? <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>A.<\/strong> It is permitted for a Muslim to take a job as a security guard for a non-Muslim owned supermarket or for a Muslim security company to offer their security services to a non-Muslim owned supermarket provided that the major source (51% or more) of income of the supermarket (from where payment for security services is made) is derived from Halaal sources or Halaal products sold at the supermarket.<\/p>\n<p>If, however, the major source of income (51% or more) is derived from Haraam sources or Haraam products sold at the supermarket including alcohol and pork, then it would not be permissible for a Muslim to take a job as a security guard or offer any security services to the non-Muslim supermarket. <strong>(Fataawa Raheemiyyah 10\/165-167)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Allah Ta\u2019ala Knows Best<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Mufti Ismaeel Bassa<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>themufti.com<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Working as a security guard for a supermarket selling alcohol and pork Q. Can a Muslim work as a security guard for a non-Muslim owned supermarket<span class=\"excerpt-hellip\"> [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-trade"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2400"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2400\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2401,"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2400\/revisions\/2401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}