Employment at a liquor factory

Question

Question: There is a liquor factory where many thousands of maunds (a unit of weight, ≈ 37 kg) of liquor are brewed and produced daily from molasses and the like, and from where it is dispatched to most cities of India by various routes. Is it permissible for Muslims to work there as labourers or clerks — for example, operating the liquor machine, cleaning bottles, making crates, boxes and canisters for the liquor, and carrying it on their own lorry, handcart or bullock cart, or loaded on their heads, to the…

Answer

If this factory belongs to a Muslim, then all these jobs in it are haram; transporting it by motor vehicle and the like and taking a wage for that is also haram. If the factory belongs to a kafir, then these jobs are makruh tahrimi.

Source: Fatawa Mahmudiyya

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