Salary paid from sale of alcohol, wants picture of Pharaoh's body

4-8-2004 | IslamWeb

Question:

I am young Muslim from Ilorin Kwara State/ Nigeria.
1. Can I accept money given to me by someone selling Alcohol as monthly salary? For teaching his children Arabic/Islamic Studies.
2. You please send me the picture of Pharaoh's dead body if you have any way of doing so.

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Answer:

All perfect praise be to Allaah, The Lord of the Worlds. I testify that there is none worthy of worship except Allaah, and that Muhammad is His slave and Messenger.

It is permissible for you to be paid wages from a person who sells intoxicants in exchange of teaching his children. But it is not permissible for you to take his money if all of it is gained from selling intoxicants, or gained from selling intoxicants and from other frobidden transactions.

However, if his money is a mixture of ill-gotten money and lawful money, then it is permissible for you to take these wages as long as you do not know that he is precisely paying you from the ill-gotten money, in which case, it is not permissible for you to work for him.

As regards the picture of Pharaoh's dead body, then we are sorry to inform you that it is not available with us.

Allaah Knows best.