Ruling on Selling cosmetics
Question I have a store that sells cosmetics and hairdressing supplies. Is this profession halaal or haraam?. Praise be to Allah. The ruling on working in such places depends on the details. 1 – If you are selling these things to people who you know will use them for the purposes of haraam wanton display…
Question
Praise be to Allah.
The ruling on working in such places depends on the details.
1 – If you are selling these things to people who you know
will use them for the purposes of haraam wanton display (tabarruj), then it
is not permissible.
2 – If you are selling them to people who you know will use
them for permissible kinds of adornment, then it is permissible.
3 – If you do not know
anything about the person who is buying them, then the basic principle is
that it is permissible.
It is not permissible to
sell them if the vendor knows that the one who buys them is going to use
them in ways that Allaah has forbidden, because that is a kind of helping in
sin and transgression. But if he knows that the purchaser is going to use
them to adorn herself for her husband or he does not know anything, then it
is permissible for him to deal in them.
See Fataawa al-Lajnah al-Daa’imah, 13/67.
And Allaah knows best.
