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In the Name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful.
All praise and thanks are due to Allah, and peace and blessings be upon His Messenger.
Dear brother in Islam, we would like to thank you for showing keenness on knowing the teachings of Islam, and we appreciate the great confidence you have in us. We hope our efforts meet your expectations.
In his book The Lawful and the Prohibited in Islam, the prominent Muslim scholar Dr. Yusuf Al-Qaradawi, states the following:
"Islam does not prohibit any trade except those that involves injustice, cheating, making exorbitant profits, or the promotion of something that is haram.
It is haram to do business in alcoholic beverages, intoxicants, drugs, swine, idols, statues, or anything of this sort whose consumption and use Islam has prohibited. Any earnings from such business are considered ill-gotten gains, and "The Hell-Fire is most fitting for the flesh that has been from unlawful earnings". Honesty and trustworthiness in such businesses will not be counted as meritorious, for Islam came to fight and destroy such practices."
Shedding more light on the issue, Dr. Muzammil Siddiqi, former president of the Islamic society of North America, adds:
"It is haram for a Muslim to sell something that is haram for him to eat or use. The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) is reported to have said, "If Allah makes consumption of something haram, He also makes dealing in such thing impermissible haram" (Musnad Ahmad, Hadith no. 2546)
Islam is a consistent religion. When it says that something is bad and forbidden, then it wants Muslims to avoid it for themselves and for others. If a Muslim sells haram things, he is not only inconsistent in his behavior; he is also ridiculing the law of Allah. He does not care what is right and what is wrong. It is right if other Muslims avoid business with this person. This will be a good reminder for this person to come back to the rules of Allah.
As far as non-Muslims are concerned, you cannot impose the rules of Shari'ah on them. If you have to buy things from their stores and eat at their restaurant, you make sure that you buy halal things and eat halal food. Of course, it is always good that Muslims patronize halal businesses and try their best to do business with those merchants that observe the rules of the Shari'ah."
Based on the above, we can conclude that it is strictly haram for that person to sell or do business in haram goods. Tell him to be conscious of Allah and fear the punishment in the Hell-Fire.
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