Zakir Naik – Working as a Handyman Repairing Apartments which are still on Interest
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The caller asks if their income is related to housing and if they can find another job. The representative explains that their income depends on their work, and if they work at a reception or manager, they are allowed to work as a waiter. The caller also asks about working for a 5-star hotel where alcohol is sold, and if a mechanic or handyman works in a real estate company, their income is taxed based on their work.
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Assalamu Alaikum, Walaikum Assalam, my name is Joseph
Siddiqui and I work with my brothers as
a handyman for the real estate business.
I fix their rental apartment on an hourly
salary basis income.
They own approximately 300 apartment units that they
repair on a daily basis.
Most of the apartments are still on interest
-based investment that have not been paid off
yet.
I don't own any real estate property with
them, but I am one of their workers.
My question to you sir is, is my
income halal according to the Islamic law or
should I find another job?
Question is posed by Joseph Siddiqui.
He is doing a freelancing work and he
is working for an estate company on an
hourly basis.
He is not fully employed and he is
a handyman who fixes plumbing or things of
the apartments and the apartments on her basis.
Is it permitted to work for a company
which owns apartments and those apartments on Riba,
is it permitted?
As far as working in a company, if
the core activity of that company is haram,
you cannot work for that company.
You cannot work for a Riba-based bank.
You cannot work for an alcoholic company because
the core activity is haram.
You can't work for a company which owns
a gambling den and the main activity is
gambling den.
But for example, you are working for a
5-star hotel.
In the 5-star hotel, the sale of
alcohol income is maybe 2%, 3%.
So can you work at the reception?
No problem.
If you are working at a reception of
a 5-star hotel, it is permitted, but
you cannot work as a waiter in a
restaurant which serves alcohol because there you will
be forced to serve alcohol.
So that 5-star hotel may be having
a restaurant which serves alcohol.
So you can work as a manager or
a receptionist of the hotel where the main
income is halal, maybe a small percentage is
haram.
So for the owner of that hotel, it
is haram for him to have a restaurant
which has alcohol.
But for the worker, for him to work
as a receptionist or manager is no problem
as long as he is not directly involved
in the alcohol restaurant.
Similarly, you are working for a handyman or
as an electrician or as a plumber for
a real estate company.
The main activity of the real estate company
is buying and selling property.
But it's taking on reba.
So if you are working and just repairing
an apartment, is it haram or halal?
It's permitted.
So tomorrow, if you are a mechanic and
suppose a car comes to you for repairs,
you'll ask the car owner, okay, is your
car on reba or not?
If the car is on reba, you can
very well repair the car because the main
activity, you cannot buy a car on reba,
but repairing a car which is on reba
is permitted because it's not directly involving in
reba.
So same way you are repairing a house
or electrician or a plumber or a handyman
of a house which is taken on reba
is permitted.
Similarly, as you being a mechanic and a
car or a motorcycle or a bus comes
which is taken on reba, so you can
repair it.
Your money is halal.
Imagine there is a doctor and a robber
comes for his treatment.
A robber comes and pays money.
The doctor can take his fees.
He cannot take something which is robbed.
For example, if he's robbed an item and
he gives that item, that's not permitted.
But if he's robbed and he's earned a
lot of money and if he pays his
fees or a person who is the owner
of a bank, he's sick and he comes
to a doctor.
A doctor treats him.
He takes money.
The money is haram for him.
But when he pays the doctor for the
doctor, he's getting for his halal work.
So similarly, if a mechanic of a car
takes money or you as a handyman or
an electrician or a plumber take money for
your halal work, it's permitted.
It's not haram.
Hope that answers the question.