making pizza dough for haram food

Question:

One of my friends works in food production where he makes dough for pizza and prepares it for other people on the production line who will place haram toppings such as ham on it. Would income from this job be halal?

Answer:

In the Name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful.

It will be permissible for your friend to make (halal) dough for pizza even if other people will place haram toppings on it; and his income from this job will be halal. Your friend will not be responsible for the haram toppings that other people put on it.

Although it will be permissible for your friend to continue this job, however, if your friend can find another job, it will be better for him to leave this job, as according to the view of some jurists, this job is not be permissible.

The ruling mentioned above is applicable only if the factory belongs to a non-Muslim. If the factory belongs to a Muslim then it will not be permissible to work there at all. This is because ham and other haram food cannot be sold by a Muslim; and if a Muslim does sell haram food, the money that he makes from it will be haram. And if a Muslim employee is given this money as his income, it will not be permissible for him to take it, as it is haram money. On the other hand, for a non-Muslim it is permissible to sell ham and other food which the non-Muslims consider permissible (although haram in Islam) and to make money from it. And if a Muslim employee is given this money as his income, it will be permissible for him to take it. [1]

And Allah knows best.

Mufti Faizal Riza
25/9/2011
Darul Ifta Australia
www.mufti-online.net

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في الدر المختار: و جاز تعمير كنيسة و حمل خمر ذمي بنفسه أو دابته بأجر
وفي حاشية ابن عابدين: قوله ( وجاز تعمير كنيسة ) قال في الخانية ولو آجر نفسه ليعمل في الكنيسة ويعمرها لا بأس به لأنه لا معصية في عين العمل قوله ( وحمل خمر ذمي ) قال الزيلعي وهذا عنده وقالا هو مكروه .... ثم قال الزيلعي وعلى هذا الخلاف لو آجره دابة لينقل عليها الخمر أو آجره نفسه ليرعى له الخنازير يطيب له الأجر عنده وعندهما يكره
( رد المحتار: 6/391 سعيد )

وفي البحر الرائق: قوله ( لم يجز بيع الميتة والدم ) لانعدام المالية التي هي ركن البيع فإنهما لا يعدان مالا عند أحد وهو من قسم الباطل .... وفي القاموس الميتة ما لم تلحقه ذكاة وبالكسر للنوع اهـ فإن أريد بعدم الجواز عدمه في حق المسلمين بقيت الميتة على إطلاقها وإن أريد الأعم للمسلم والكافر فيراد بها ما مات حتف أنفه أما المنخنقة والموقوذة فغير داخلة لما في التجنيس أهل الكفر إذا باعوا الميتة فيما بينهم لا يجوز لأنها ليست بمال عندهم ولو باعوا ذبيحتهم وذبحهم أن يخنقوا الشاة ويضربوها حتى تموت جاز لأنها عندهم بمنزلة الذبيحة عندنا ، وفي جامع الكرخي يجوز البيع عند أبي يوسف خلافا لمحمد ، لأبي يوسف أنهم يتمولونها كالخمر ولمحمد أن أحكامهم كأحكامنا إلا في الخمر ، وفي الذخيرة أراد بالميتة ما مات حتف أنفه أما التي ماتت بالسبب كالخنق والجرح في غير موضع الذبح فالمبيع فاسد لا باطل وكذلك ذبائح المجوس مال متقوم عندهم بمنزلة الخمر كذا في المعراج ، وحاصله أن فيما لم يمت حتف أنفه بل بسبب غير الذكاة روايتين بالنسبة إلى الكافر وفي رواية الجواز وفي رواية الفساد وأما البطلان فلا وأما في حقنا فالكل سواء
( البحر الرائق: 6/70 )

وفي الدر المختار: ( كخمر وخنزير وميتة لم تمت حتف أنفها ) بل بالخنق ونحوه فإنها مال عند الذمي كخمر وخنزير

وفي حاشية ابن عابدين: ( قوله وميتة لم تمت حتف أنفها ) هذا في حق المسلم ، أما الذمي ففي رواية بيعها صحيح وفي أخرى فاسد ، كما قدمناه عن البحر

( رد المحتار: 5/55 سعيد )

( وانظر: فتاوى عثماني: 3/398؛ أحسن الفتاوى: 7/332؛ فتاوى محموديه: 25/146،147 ط مكتبة محمودية؛ إمداد الأحكام: 3/534؛ عزيز الفتاوى: ص 637 )

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