Ruling About Printing Curse Words
Answered by Shaykh Abdul-Rahim Reasat
Question
My question is, I sell custom metal cards. This is a metal card which is put in a display frame to hang up on the wall they are fully customizable only for text. people can write anything and I will simply type it out and print in onto the card as their request, my issue is some people mainly around valentines day have some sexual or curse words for their request. My issue is can I do these orders as I am not myself cursing or being offensive or foul.
Along with this question can I also ask whether it is okay for me to make advertisements about gifts for fathers day or valentines day as people are reminded and it drives my sales up a lot in that season.
Answer
I pray you are well.
It would not be permitted for you to print any foul language or indecent images. You should have a policy of only printing wholesome text and images of inanimate things. Doing so would entail sinning and assisting in sin. (Ibn ‘Abidin, Radd al-Muhtar)
Making and advertising wholesome gifts for such events is permissible, provided you follow the above rules.
May Allah bless you income and your work.
[Shaykh] Abdul-Rahim Reasat
Checked and approved by Shaykh Faraz Rabbani
Shaykh Abdul-Rahim Reasat began his studies in Arabic Grammar and Morphology in 2005. After graduating with a degree in English and History he moved to Damascus in 2007 where, for 18 months, he studied with many erudite scholars. In late 2008 he moved to Amman, Jordan, where he continued his studies for the next six years in Sacred Law (fiqh), legal theory (Usul al-fiqh), theology, hadith methodology, hadith commentary, and Logic. He was also given licenses of mastery in the science of Quranic recital and he was able to study an extensive curriculum of Quranic sciences, tafsir, Arabic grammar, and Arabic eloquence.
Shaykh Faraz Rabbani spent ten years studying with some of the leading scholars of recent times, first in Damascus, and then in Amman, Jordan. His teachers include the foremost theologian of recent times in Damascus, the late Shaykh Adib al-Kallas (may Allah have mercy on him), as well as his student Shaykh Hassan al-Hindi, one of the leading Hanafi fuqaha of the present age. He returned to Canada in 2007, where he founded SeekersGuidance in order to meet the urgent need to spread Islamic knowledge–both online and on the ground–in a reliable, relevant, inspiring, and accessible manner. He is the author of: Absolute Essentials of Islam: Faith, Prayer, and the Path of Salvation According to the Hanafi School (White Thread Press, 2004.) Since 2011, Shaykh Faraz has been named one of the 500 most influential Muslims by the Royal Islamic Strategic Studies Center.
