Can accountants take on clients who sell alcohol?

Q: Can accountants take on clients who sell alcohol?

A: It is permitted to draw up financial accounts of a client who sells alcohol.  If the client is non-Muslim then the remuneration is also ritually pure.  If the client is Muslim and remunerates you from the proceeds of the alcohol specifically or from a co-mingled pot of which the major portion is the proceeds of alcohol then such remuneration is ritually impure.  If the Muslim client remunerates you from halal funds or from a co-mingled pot of which the major portion is halal then such remuneration is also ritually pure.

And Allah knows best.

Mufti Mohammed Zubair Butt

Chair, Al-Qalam Shariah Scholars Panel

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