Fatwa: # 15168
Category: Financial Transactions
Country: Canada
Date: 7th May 2007

Title

Is it ok to deliver food that is not halal? (like a delivery job?)

Question

Is it ok to deliver food that is not halal? (like a delivery job?)

Answer

In the name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful

Assalaamu `alaykum waRahmatullahi Wabarakatoh

The Jurists have difference of opinion concerning the delivery of alcohol and pork.  As for meat besides pork, it is permissible to deliver it for non-Muslims and the income will be halal.  However such a job is not befitting for a Muslim.   

Fatawa al-Hindiya (4:449) Maktaba Rasheediya

Rad al-Muhtar (6:391) H.M. Saeed Company

إذا استأجر رجلا ليحمل له خمرا فله الأجر في قول أبي حنيفة رحمه الله تعالى وقال أبو يوسف ومحمد - رحمهما الله تعالى - لا أجر له وإذا استأجر ذمي مسلما ليحمل له خمرا ولم يقل ليشرب أو قال ليشرب جازت له الإجارة في قول أبي حنيفة رحمه الله تعالى خلافا لهما...وإذا استأجر الذمي مسلما ليحمل له ميتة أودما يجوز عندهم جميعا (الهندية 4:449) 

( قوله وحمل خمر ذمي ) قال الزيلعي : وهذا عنده وقالا هو مكروه " لأنه عليه الصلاة والسلام { لعن في الخمر عشرة وعد منها حاملها } " وله أن الإجارة على الحمل وهو ليس بمعصية ، ولا سبب لها وإنما تحصل المعصية بفعل فاعل مختار ، وليس الشرب من ضرورات الحمل ، لأن حملها قد يكون للإراقة أو للتخليل ، فصار كما إذا استأجره لعصر العنب أو قطعه والحديث محمول على الحمل المقرون بقصد المعصية ا هـ زاد في النهاية وهذا قياس وقولهما استحسان ، 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)

And Allah knows best

Wassalam

Ml. Ehzaz Ajmeri,
Student Darul Iftaa

Checked and Approved by:

Mufti Ebrahim Desai
Darul Iftaa

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