Fatwa #3585712 August 2016United States of America
Working as hotel manager
Question
My husband works as a hotel manager. The hotel was bought through financing and involves mortgage payments to a bank. My husband's father is the hotel's owner. Even though my husband is working as an employee and receives a pay for his work, are his earnings halal?
Answer
In the Name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful.
As-salāmu ‘alaykum wa-rahmatullāhi wa-barakātuhu
There are two issues in the query. The financing of the hotel and your husbands employment as a manager.
It was not permissible to finance the hospital through conventional mechanisms as that involves paying interest which is prohibited and constitutes a sin. However. Your husband’s employment as a manager is a different issue. The impermissible financing of the hotel does not affect the halal status of your husband’s income as a manager of the hotel.
And Allah Ta’āla Knows Best
Ismail Desai,
Darul Iftaa
Mufti Ebrahim Desai