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Is it allowed to sit at a table where food is served, if the food was cooked with or contains alcohol as an ingredient? Sayyed Mohammad Al-Musawi Food containing alcohol is forbidden like alcohol is forbidden. We must avoid sitting on such table. Wassalam.	Is the salary earned by an IT Administrator, working at a resort in Maldives that sells alcoholic drinks, considered Halal? Zaid Alsalami Bismihi ta'ala As long as you have no involvement with the alcohol side, there would not be a problem for you working there as an IT administrator. And Allah knows best.
Is it considered allowed for someone to work in a bakery where cakes are made with alcohol beverages for flavoring? Sayyed Mohammad Al-Musawi Muslim is not allowed to prepare or sell or serve any food or drink which contains alcohol. Wassalam.	Is vanilla extract permissible in Islam, considering that it is made using alcohol? Or is it allowed because it is not consumed for the purpose of intoxication, but rather only for baking or flavoring? Sayyed Mohammad Al-Musawi If you don’t know for sure that vanilla contains a reasonable percentage of alcohol, it is allowed to consume it. Wassalam.