Dubious

Whoever is cautious in the dubious matters will save his religious commitment and his honour, but whoever falls into dubious matters will fall into haraam, like a shepherd who grazes his flocks around a private pasture and is liable to enter it at any moment.

 If it is possible to control what happens in the internet café and prevent evil, there is nothing wrong with opening it and the income that results from that is halaal. But if it is not possible to control it and the customers use it for things that Allaah has forbidden, such as looking at haraam things and doing evil things – as is the case with most such cafes and their customers – then it is not permissible to open it and the income that results from it is haraam. In that case you have to change the place to another project in which there is no sin and you can earn a halaal income from it, which will help you to worship Allaah by going for Hajj, getting married, etc. 

In order to train ourselves to accept the rulings of sharee’ah, we should start by noting some of the basic principles of sharee’ah etc which will help the Muslim – who submits to the rulings of Allaah – to deal with this operation and similar schemes devised by business-minded people, in a confident manner, especially when the following five main factors are present in these operations: 

1-     Widespread media and advertising media

2-     Ease of financial transfer by means of credit cards and the like

3-  Increased need for money among ordinary people, because of excessive desire to  accumulate non-essentials

4-     Greed and love of money in human nature

5-     Lack of religious commitment and desire to seek halaal provision among many Muslims.

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“Help you one another in Al‑Birr and At‑Taqwa (virtue, righteousness and piety); but do not help one another in sin and transgression. And fear Allaah. Verily, Allaah is Severe in punishment”
[al-Maa'idah 5:2]