🕌 *HALQAH SESSION*
الحمد لله رب العالمين
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
والصلاة والسلام على سيد الأولين والآخرين
وعلى آله وصحبه ومن تبعهم بإحسان إلى يوم الدين
Assalāmu Alaykum Warahmatullāh Wabarakātuh
You are welcome to this morning’s session of the Halqah
Where we shall be responding to some of the questions we have pending answers
We ask Allāh to make it beneficial for us all, āmīn
Alhamdulillāh
*QUESTION*
*ON OPERERATING HOTELS*
_” 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:
_”And assist one another in Piety and the Fear (of Allāh) and do not assist one another in sins and transgression.”_
وَتَعَاوَنُوا عَلَى الْبِرِّ وَالتَّقْوَى وَلا تَعَاوَنُوا عَلَى الْأِثْمِ وَالْعُدْوَانِ
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 otherwise, then the level of its inclusion of these vices is the level of its forbiddance accordingly, and Allāh knows best
If its a place where these vices are prevalent, then it is Harām to work in such a place
Bārakallāhu fīkum
