Designing logo for indecent outfits

14-11-2016 | IslamWeb

Question:

Assalaamu alaykum. I am working in a marketing agency as a graphic designer. I do kiosks and stands for marketing and design uniforms for those who will do marketing with people. A few days ago, they asked me to do a picture for a beach uniform for girls wearing hot shorts. They wanted me to "just put the logo on the uniform." At first I refused, but my boss asked me to do it given that no one will wear this dress to show it to the client, so I accepted but then later remembered that one day, some girl will wear this uniform in front of other people at the beach. Was it haram for me to put the logo on the uniform? Am I wrong for working with them? I want my work to be halal.

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Answer:

All perfect praise be to Allah, The Lord of the worlds. I testify that there is none worthy of worship except Allah and that Muhammad, sallallahu ‘alayhi wa sallam, is His slave and Messenger.

As long as you knew the purpose for which the logo was designed and that it would be placed on such revealing clothes that are to be worn by indecently dressed girls at the beach, then you should not have designed it. The fact that your boss asked you to design it does not make it permissible for you to do so. Designing the logo by itself does not waive the sin given that you knew the purpose for it. Allah, The Exalted, says (what means): {...and do not cooperate in sin and aggression...} [Quran 5:2]

So ask Allah for forgiveness and resolve never to do such work again. For more benefit, please refer to fatwa 86527.

Allah knows best.