We are aware that smelling, drinking, touching, or looking at alcohol is haram, but we aren't sure if he builds the bar that it is haram.
Mu' meneen Brothers
and Sisters,
As Salaam Aleikum wa
Rahmatullahi wa Barakatuh. (May Allah's Peace, Mercy and Blessings be
upon all of you)
One of our
brothers/sisters has asked this question:
As Salaam Aleikum,
My husband is a self
employed carpenter. He is currently working at a Japanese restaruant, he
is making them a new counter top. The owner of the restaraunt also
wants him to make a bar for the restaraunt. We are aware that smelling,
drinking, touching, or looking at alcohol is haram, but we aren't sure if he
builds the bar that it is haram. Can you help us out. Thank you.
Salam
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Answer:
Can one build a Bar
for a restaurant?
In the name of Allah, We praise Him, seek His help and ask
for His forgiveness. Whoever Allah guides none can misguide, and whoever He
allows to fall astray, none can guide them aright. We bear witness that there
is no one (no idol, no person, no grave, no prophet, no imam,
no dai, nobody!) worthy of
worship but Allah Alone, and we bear witness that Muhammad(saws) is His
slave-servant and the seal of His Messengers.
Allah says in the Holy
Quran Chapter 5 Surah Maidah verses 90-91:O you who have believed! ‘Khamr’ (all types of intoxicants), games of chance, idols, and divining
arrows are all abominable works of Shaitaan; therefore, stay (far)
away from these so that you may attain success. Indeed,
Shaitaan seeks to sow enmity and hatred among you by means of ‘khamr’
(intoxicants) and gambling, and to
prevent you from the Remembrance of Allah and from Salaah. Will you not, then, abstain from these
things?
Al-Tirmidhi Hadith
2776 Narrated by Anas ibn Malik
Allah's Messenger
(saws) invoked the curse of Allah on ten people in connection with wine: the wine-presser, the one who has it
pressed, the one who drinks it, the one who conveys it, the one to whom it is
conveyed, the one who serves it, the one who sells it, the one who benefits
from the price paid for it, the one who buys it, and the one for whom it is
bought.
Allah Subhanah guides the
believers in the Glorious Quran to ‘stay (far) away
from’ all types of intoxicants; and the Messenger of Allah (saws)
invoked the curse of Allah on everyone who is associated in the process of
making, distributing, or facilitating the use of intoxicants.
Making a bar knowing that it
will be used for the sale of intoxicants, would be considered facilitating the
use of alcohol; and it would thus not be permissible for the believer, who
sincerely fears Allah and the Last Day.
If your husband abstains from
participating in this project of building a bar, he might loose a few dollars
of business in the life of this world; but he will gain the immense pleasure
and good will of His Merciful and Bounteous Lord and Creator. If Allah Wills, He will compensate and
enrich your husband generously from His Infinite Bounty in this world, and in
the Hereafter.
Whatever written of Truth and
benefit is only due to Allah’s Assistance and Guidance, and whatever of error
is of me. Allah Alone Knows Best and He
is the Only Source of Strength.
Your Brother in
Islam,
Burhan