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Marriage to a Cigarette Seller
A 34-year-old girl living in the West has not yet married. A young man who works in a supermarket has proposed to her. He observes prayer and zakat and seeks what is lawful, but he sells cigarettes. Is it permissible for her to accept him? Will she be sinful if he spends on her from his money mixed with the unlawful earnings from selling cigarettes?
Answer
I say, and with Allah's guidance: It is permissible to marry him, and you should advise him to stop selling tobacco and similar prohibitions. It is permissible to benefit from the money as long as the unlawful does not dominate it. And Allah knows best.
