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  • Taking usurious loan to achieve lawful purposes

    Is there any good day to be scheduled for marriage? Or it is a sin to ask questions like this. How about the position of the head of the bed or the position of our head (example, to Qiblah, etc.). When sleeping anytime especially at nigh (its good and bad positions)? Is the money taken from loan (with interest from the bank) to be given as dory.. More

  • Money of a deceased person who left no relatives

    When a person who saves money in the house of his friend. Suddenly dead and without any agreement and without leaving behind any relatives or anybody to claim. So what that friend can do he take his money or what?.. More

  • Investment with the guarantee of capital money plus profit

    I have a manufacturing business and due to shortfall of capital I want to seek an investment from some one. If I seek investment such as Rs. 100000/- from a person for a period of one month without fixing any percentage of profit and saying that total of profit earned through this Rs. 100000/- will be divided equally between us. Although, I calculate.. More

  • Getting percentage of invested money for surfing ads

    Recently, I found a couple of websites that let you invest with them, how ever dealing with them doesn't look as usury as it works different that being usury. For example: www.studiotraffic.com, www.12dailypro.com. They let you invest any amount less than 6000$. 1) Which you can't withdraw once you invested. 2) And you get a constant percentage.. More

  • Purchasing imitated goods

    I have two questions: 1) Are counterfeit products permissible for purchase like branded products? (2) What are the signs to know if your sins are forgiven by Allaah? .. More

  • What to do with extra money got from life insurance

    My aunt has bought insurance 18 years back by her son's name. She has submitted 50 thousand rupees in these 18 years gradually. Now according to that insurance she will get 1 lakh rupees but these more 50 thousand rupees are "Ribaa" according to our limited knowledge. Please confirm it. You if it so then what should she do of that extra 5o thousand.. More

  • When the co-partnership starts

    My question is about Mudhaarabah: When the Mudhaarabah starts according to Sharee'ah. Does the Mudhaarabah starts when the body partner (Mudhaarib) starts the work? What if the capital partner asks the body partner to starts working, then say to him that the Mudarabah between us will starts after one year for instance, is this permissible.. More

  • Pension for retired worker

    I am working in a private company. According the rules the employer is entitled to give gratuity and allowances (not bonus or dividend) in accordance with the service of the employee when he/she leaves the firm. But some employers argue that it is not compulsory to give the gratuity and allowances. What is the Shariah ruling regarding this issue?.. More

  • Life insurance fully paid by the employer

    If I am working with a company and the company paid full cost for life insurance which will give money to my family after death. If I am working with the company when I pass away, and I am not paying anything on that, is it Halaal or Haraam to engage in such a system?.. More

  • Quran and Sunnah as a source of economics

    How the Quran and the Sunnah can be as the source of knowledge in economics? .. More

  • Maintenance worker on a dinner boat on which liquor is served

    Would you please clarify this matter for me? I work on a dinner boat. This boat has lunch and dinner crosses. They serve liquor in the boat. I don't work inside the boat, where they serve the liquor, but I do maintenance work on the out side (I'm a sailor). Know the boat's revenue consist of two different incomes. The first income comes from crossing,.. More

  • Taking commission from buyer and seller

    In Islam taking percentage commission from both buyer and/or sellers on a website allowed? Like ebay.com .. More

  • Choice to invalidate the sale contract conducted via Internet

    I am buying online on "eBay", and after I agreed with the seller on the price of a merchandize I faced some problem with delivery. Then I checked the price with another seller I found it cheaper by $30. In this case can I leave the first seller or I have to stick with him? I mean is it considered as a bounding contract with which I have.. More

  • Selling the leather of dead animals before it is tanned

    I have a question concerning trade. I have a Muslim friend who buys skins from Mushrikeen who have either slaughtered that animal in an improper way or an animal which has died, and then sells to another person who is also a Muslim and that person also sells to another person who takes it to tannery. I wanted to know if this trade is lawful and.. More

  • The one who accepts interest and the one who pays it are cursed

    This is regarding interest or bank loans. Not a single verse in the Quran states that giving interest is Haraam. It is only for taking or eating, not for giving. Even the Saheeh Muslim Hadeeth which is quoted (No. 1597 and Hadeeth No. 1598) talks about the one who eats, one who writes and one who arranges (agent). The Arabic word is Mu-ke-Lahu,.. More