Is it permissible for me to design solutions for banks, insurance companies, etc

· 18 Shawwal 1433 AH1 min readFatwa 20991English
Finance and Commerce

Question

Asalam u Alikum, I am a Network & Security Engineer in an IT Security Company. I mostly deal in designing and implementing security solutions for various organizations. Question is: Is it permissible for me to design solutions for Banks, Insurance companies. etc. ? Is it haram for me? If so how would survive? JazakALLAH. Sarim Rafiq

Answer

Answer:

In the Name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful.

As-salāmu ‘alaykum wa-rahmatullāhi wa-barakātuh.

You are a Network and Security Engineer in an IT company and your job profile is to design and implement security solutions for commercial banks, insurance companies, etc. A Network Engineer is involved in the design and maintenance of both the hardware and software necessary for a computer network. They are high level technical analysts with a specialty in Local Area Networks (LANs) or Wide Area Networks (WANs).[1]

Since the job profile in reference is unrelated to interest, therefore such a job profile is Shari’ah Compliant.

And Allah Ta’āla Knows Best

Moulana Ismail Desai,
Student Darul Iftaa
Durban, South Africa

Checked and Approved by,
Mufti Ebrahim Desai.

References (Arabic / Urdu sources)

[1] http://jobsearchtech.about.com/od/careersintechnology/p/NetEng.htm, last accessed at 05/09/2012.

Answered by
Moulana Ismail Desai
Checked & approved by
Mufti Ebrahim Desai
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