Ruling on working as a defence lawyer
Support IslamQA Please contribute generously in order to ensure the continuity of our website InshaAllah. Contribute Ruling on working as a defence lawyer 24-06-2001 Question 9496 When working as a defence lawyer, one may have to support and defend evil, because the defence lawyer tries to prove the innocence of the guilty person whom he is defending. Is the income of a defence lawyer who does that haraam? Are there any Islamic conditions attached to a person working as a defence lawyer? Ruling on jobs Related topic Answer Praise be to Allah. Defence also means protection, and if a person defends and protects evil then undoubtedly this is haraam, because it means that he is falling into that which Allaah has forbidden: “but do not help one another in sin and transgression” [al-Maa'idah 5:2 – interpretation of the meaning] But if he protects and defends good, then this is a praiseworthy kind of protection as enjoined in the aayah: “Help you one another in Al‑Birr and At