#621: Ruling on Operating Hotel Business

Tue 27 Dhul Hijjah 1443AH

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QUESTION

” Salaam alaikum Admin pls I want to know if hotel business is halal in Islam, though they don’t sell alcohol in the hotel but people do come and commit fornication and the management are all Muslims.Secondly what are the faith of those working there…..”

ANSWER

Wa alaykum Salām Warahmatullāh Wabarakātuh.

Alhamdulillāh

Generally, there is nothing impermissible with building hotels and operating them if they meet the principles of Islām and don’t allow for the vices that are prevalent in Modern societies.

But if a Hotel is a resting place for fornicators and criminals, it becomes Harām to operate such hotels.

This is because Allāh – ta’ālā – said:

وَتَعَاوَنُوا عَلَى الْبِرِّ وَالتَّقْوَى وَلا تَعَاوَنُوا عَلَى الْأِثْمِ وَالْعُدْوَانِ

“And assist one another in Piety and the Fear (of Allāh) and do not assist one another in sins and transgression.”

A brother once asked this question and he was answered as is in the above.

Then he said: ‘Is it possible to operate a hotel in this era and it doesn’t become an abode for people who commit fornication and its likes?’

We responded saying:
‘Place the Causative Condition for its permissibility on the premise of it becoming an abode for Transgressing the limits of Allāh or not’

If it isn’t possible, then its operation becomes Harām.

Then if it is said: what is the ruling of been employed in such a facility?

We say: If its a place where these vices are prevalent, then it is Harām to work in such a place.

If otherwise, then the level of its inclusion of these vices is the level of its forbiddance accordingly, and Allāh knows best.

Bārakallāhu fīkum.

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