Question: If a Muslim person opens a hotel in a non-Islamic country, and is forced to sell some kinds of wine and Haram foods because the majority of the people in that country are Christians who drink wine with their food, and do not go to a hotel where wine is not served with food, and considering that the person intends to pay back all the income from Haram cases to the religious authority, is the person allowed to do this?
The Grand Ayatollah Khamenei: There is no problem in opening hotel or eating place in non-Islamic countries, but selling wine and Haram foods are not allowed, even if the buyer consider them as Halal, and receiving money for them is not allowed even if the person (owner of the place) intends to pay back that money to the religious authority.
source : SHAFAQNA
