{"id":5351,"date":"2020-01-28T12:28:40","date_gmt":"2020-01-28T18:28:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.drhatemalhaj.com\/qa\/?p=5351"},"modified":"2020-01-28T12:28:40","modified_gmt":"2020-01-28T18:28:40","slug":"help-a-muslim-woman-sell-girl-scout-cookies-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.drhatemalhaj.com\/qa\/?p=5351","title":{"rendered":"Help a Muslim woman sell Girl Scout cookies?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #993300;\">Is it permissible for a Muslim male coworker to help a Muslimah sell girls scout cookies (for her daughter&#8217;s school) within the office?<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>All praise be to Allah and may His blessings and peace be on His last messenger, Muhammad,<\/p>\n<p>As a general rule, it is permissible for a male or female to help his co-worker (male or female) to sell any product as long as there are no other factors rendering the act unlawful (such as temptation, prohibited products, breaking office rules, etc.).\u00a0Allah says: \u201cAllah says: \u201cHelp you one another in al\u2011Birr and at\u2011Taqwa (virtue, righteousness and piety); but do not help one another in sin and transgression. And fear Allah. Verily, Allah is Severe in punishment\u201d [al-Maa\u2019idah 5:2]<\/p>\n<p>Selling cookies is a way of supporting various organizations. If the organization represents views that are entirely unacceptable in the\u00a0<em>Sharia<\/em>\u00a0(Islamic law), then it is not permissible to support such organization. I would, also, advise the sister to ensure that her daughter is not exposed to ideas or practices that could compromise her faith or religious commitment.<\/p>\n<p>Allah knows best.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is it permissible for a Muslim male coworker to help a Muslimah sell girls scout cookies (for her daughter&#8217;s school) within the office? &nbsp; All praise be to Allah and may His blessings and peace be on His last messenger, Muhammad, As a general rule, it is permissible for a male or female to help [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[44,34,84,55],"tags":[402,403],"class_list":["post-5351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts-entertainment-and-sports","category-children-and-youth","category-gender-interactions","category-transactions-and-employment","tag-girl-scouts-and-islam","tag-selling-cookies-for-organizations"],"views":573,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drhatemalhaj.com\/qa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5351"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drhatemalhaj.com\/qa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drhatemalhaj.com\/qa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drhatemalhaj.com\/qa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drhatemalhaj.com\/qa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5351"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.drhatemalhaj.com\/qa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5351\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5352,"href":"https:\/\/www.drhatemalhaj.com\/qa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5351\/revisions\/5352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drhatemalhaj.com\/qa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drhatemalhaj.com\/qa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drhatemalhaj.com\/qa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}