Assalam-o-Alaikum. First of all Praise be Allah who gave you the Saadat of doing this Honorable thing, and secondly May Allah give you ajar for doing helping others understanding Allah`s Deen better. I was reading your Q&A on interest and I came across this .. Hadrat Ali ibn Abu Talib (a.s.) heard Allah`s Messenger (saws) curse those who took usury, those who paid it, those who recorded it, and those who refused to give sadaqah. I am concenred with the part saying "who recorded it", because I am an accountant by profession and my company unfortunately uses pays regular amounts of tax on the money it uses with bank. My bookkeeping duties include keeping track of it and recording it for accounting purposes. Does this mean I`m doing wrong?. I thought acocuntancy was a Halal profession. May Allah give you ajar for your efforts. Allah hafiz Faisal
Accountant Halaal Position
In the name of Allah, We praise
Him, seek His help and ask for His forgiveness.
Whoever Allah guides none can misguide, and whoever He allows to fall astray,
none can guide them aright. We bear witness that there is no one (no idol, no person,
no grave, no prophet, no
imam, no dai, nobody!) worthy of worship but Allah Alone,
and we bear witness that Muhammad(saws) is His slave-servant and the seal of
His Messengers.
The profession of
accounting is indeed considered a halaal or legal
profession in Islam. In your particular
case, if the
company’s (the one where you are employed) main source of business is the
taking and giving of interest, like a
bank, mortgage house, etc., then it would be forbidden to work in this
company.
But if your company’s main source of business is not the
giving and taking of interest, but is a
regular ‘halaal’ business, and the accountant records
the normal transactions of payment of interest, etc. of this company, then this ruling of ‘those who record it’
will not apply to the book-keepers or accountants of this company.
The scholars in Islam are of the opinion that ‘those who
record it’ applies to those people whose main and principle duty is only to
record the interest-based transactions of
money lending firms, whose main
or only source of business is ‘riba’, like banks,
mortgage houses, etc.
Whatever written of
Truth and benefit is only due to Allah’s Assistance and Guidance, and whatever
of error is of me. Allah Alone Knows
Best and He is the Only Source of Strength.
Your brother and well wisher in Islam,
Burhan
