I am offered a job in a
company with very good benefits. My part is to do research with pig
embryos in the company’s laboratory. The ultimate objective of my research
is to improve the production and genetic quality of pigs (i.e. more pigs
with good meat characteristics) to the market for human food consumption.
In other words, the source of my salary comes from the consumption of pig
meat (pork) which is haram. My question is: Is this money halal and I can
take the job, or should I decline it? I apreciate your quick response to
give my word. Jazakumu Allahu Khairun.

Praise be to Allaah. 

The meat of pigs is haraam for the Muslim because
Allaah says (interpretation of the meaning):

“Say
(O Muhammad): ‘I find not in that which has been revealed to me anything
forbidden to be eaten by one who wishes to eat it, unless it be Maytah (a
dead animal) or blood poured forth (by slaughtering or the like), or the
flesh of swine (pork); for that surely, is impure or impious (unlawful)
meat (of an animal) which is slaughtered as a sacrifice for others than
Allaah (or has been slaughtered for idols, or on which Allaah’s Name has
not been mentioned while slaughtering). But whosoever is forced by
necessity without wilful disobedience, nor transgressing due limits; (for
him) certainly, your Lord is Oft‑Forgiving, Most Merciful.’”
[al-An’aam 6:145]

 Buying
it and selling it are also forbidden.

 It
was reported from Jaabir ibn ‘Abd-Allaah (may Allaah be pleased with
them both) that he heard the Messenger of Allaah
(peace and blessings
of Allaah be upon him) say during the year of the Conquest [of Makkah]
when he was in Makkah: “Allaah and His Messenger have forbidden the sale
of alcohol, dead meat, pork and idols.” It was said: “O Messenger of
Allaah, what about the fat of dead animals, which is daubed on ships and
animal skins, and which people use in their lamps?” He said, “No, it
is haraam.” Then the Messenger of Allaah
(peace and blessings of
Allaah be upon him) said: “May Allaah curse the Jews, for when Allaah
forbade the fat (of dead animals) for them, they melted it then they sold
it and consumed its price.” (Narrated by al-Bukhaari, 2121; Muslim,
1581).

 When
Allaah forbids a thing, He forbids its price. Similarly, the means to
something haraam is also haraam; the means comes under the same rulings as
the end. It is not permissible for a Muslim to help evildoers in their
evil. He is obliged as much as possible to come between them and their
evil, and try to prevent them from doing that, not to improve the haraam
thing and help to develop it.

 Would
you like to be the means of improving and making haraam things attractive
and encouraging people to do them, so that you are helping to spread them
further? I think you would reply: I do not want for myself anything that
my Creator would not be pleased with, I will not work for falsehood, no
matter what they pay me. Provision is in the hand of Allaah, so you must
look for other, permissible, work. We ask Allaah to give you sufficient
from what He has permitted so there will be no need of that which He has
forbidden. May He make us independent by His bounty so that we will have
no need of anything else.