a tobacco company? She is moral girl, virtuous and wears hejab. Allah
knows what chests hide.
Praise be to Allaah.
Marriage is a step towards happiness in this world, but many people
seek happiness in this transient world and forget about the Hereafter
which is eternal, so when it comes to marriage they do not pay
attention to that which Allaah has prescribed, and they only think of
finding pleasure and satisfying desires, and they only pay attention
to the beauty, status or wealth of the woman they seek, and in most
cases that is at the expense of religious commitment.
We do not think that you are one of these people.
The Muslim needs someone who will make him steadfast and help him to
be righteous and adhere to the path of good and obedience. The best
help in all of that is a righteous wife, who will tell him to do good
and forbid him to do evil.
The Muslim also needs a decent and righteous mother who will take care
of his children and bring them up properly, and instil strong morals
and good values in them, teaching them to submit fully to Allaah and
to respect the religion of Allaah in their hearts and be motivated to
adhere to the rulings of sharee'ah in their lives, so that they will
attain the pleasure of Allaah in this world and in the Hereafter, and
so that they will be beacons of goodness and righteousness in their
societies.
This is what you should look for in the woman whom you seek as a wife
and companion, and this is what you should pay attention to when
proposing marriage.
Think about the situation of this girl to whom you want to propose marriage.
If you see in her what we have described, then she is the one you
want, so make sure you do not miss this opportunity. The sign of that
is that if you explain to her that smoking is haraam and that helping
with it and working in companies that produce and market tobacco is
haraam, she will respond to you and will give up her job willingly,
rejoicing that Allaah has guided her and diverted her from haraam and
impure earnings. We ask Alala to guide this young woman.
But if she rejects your advice and does not listen to the fatwas of
the scholars which are virtually unanimous in stating that this
obnoxious plant is haraam and that it is haraam to work in producing
it, and she insists on staying in that haraam job and mixing with
non-mahram men who share this sin with her, then we do not think that
in that case you will see in her the good qualities that we spoke of,
and you will realize that our advice will - inevitably - be to forget
about this proposal and look for another opportunity that is based on
obedience, piety and commitment, and to avoid speaking to this girl,
and not try to get in touch with her, because speaking to women
unnecessarily is haraam.
Working in factories and companies that produce tobacco and cigarettes
is worse than actually smoking, because the producer of tobacco is a
producer of evil and a source of evil and harm who is working to
corrupt society by destroying the health and well being that Allaah
has given to people. So he bears the burden of sin for all the harm
and damage that spreads through society because of smoking, even if
his work is in the accounting department, because the company is a
single entity whose work is basically haraam, and every job that helps
in something haraam is also haraam.
We look forward to the day on which the tobacco factories and
companies will become idle, shunned by every Muslim who feels a sense
of protective jealousy towards his religion, his own self and his
society, and when he protects himself against being a source of
destruction and corruption.
Try to advise this girl concerning this matter, and quote to her the
fatwas which state that. Neither you nor she should seek that haraam
provision, for Allaah, may He be glorified and exalted, erases
blessing from that which is haraam but He blesses that which is
halaal. If she responds, then go ahead and marry her, otherwise Allaah
will make everyone independent of means by His Bounty, and Allaah is
Most Generous and Wise.
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Regards,
NAJIMUDEEN M/
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