Ibn ‘Uthaymeen was asked: The listener says that he works with a man who insists on committing sins and does not heed advice. I brought him some religious books hoping that he would be enlightened by them, but that was in vain. So, should I abandon working with him despite the fact that work is very scarce in our locality?" He answered as follows: “If he commits the sin in your presence because the nature of work requires that you be present while he commits the sin, then it is not permissible for you to stay in this job, because sitting with disobedient people is an act of disobedience and is participating with them in sin, as Allaah says (what means): {And it has already come down to you in the Book [i.e. the Quran] that when you hear the verses of Allaah [recited] they are denied [by them] and ridiculed; so do not sit with them until they enter into another conversation. Indeed, you would then be like them.}, i.e. if you sit with them then you are like them. But if the disobedience that he commits is outside the work that you are sharing with him, then it is permissible for you to stay in your job as you did not see the sins that he commits and you are not pleased with them.” This is a summary of an excerpt from the Fataawa (in the program) Noor ‘Ala-Ad-Darb.