Dear brother As-Salaamu 'Alaykum, I have a question in hopes that you can help me out by answering it and clearing up the matter for me. I am a practicing Muslim and I work as a dispatcher for a trucking company. My job is to find truck-loads for our company truck drivers. I use the phone to call different companies and book from them loads for the.. More
Asalmu alaikum.Can an architect draw plans for big houses and for banks which deals with interest.The reason why i am asking about big houses is that ALLAH's rasool(pbuh) has disliked of building big houses.Can a civil engineer build such things.Please help me regarding this.May ALLAH the Almighty reward you .. More
Assalamu alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatu Recently, i have taken interest investing in the stock market. My activities range from long term investments, to short term day-trading (buy/sell same day) and my decisions are purely based on technical analysis using graphs to calculate share price movement and an in depth research into the company business.. More
Asalam alaikum, Jazakumallah kher for all your efforts. I have a question regarding income insurance. I live and work in Sweden where one is insured incase of of unemplyment or injury/sickness that does not allow you to work. One will be paid maximum 1600 dollars/ month, which is not much, house rent is about 1000 dollars. There is also an option where.. More
my question is that i work in a store and sometimes and a few times i have done things which may be seen as dishonest i.e once a customer item was not scanning so i put it in his bag for free as the customer was getting frustrated because the amount of time it was taking, also on one occasion i was asked to count newspapers that are leftover at the.. More
It is a norm in our city that builders/re sellers are asking to pay 15-20% white money and remaining 80-85% in black money to purchase a property. The reason is the municipality fixes rates of the area (which is the 15-20% white money) but due to high demand in area, builders/resellers sell the property at a very high profit margin (which they demand.. More
Assalamu Alaykum, My question is with regards to one of the employees who out of his own will tried to apply and get a tax return for our business and was successful. our firm tried to apply before but since we were late with the dead line our firm was refused. However this employee pulled some strings and family and managed for our firm to recieve.. More
Salam I work for an international humanitarian organisation for almost 10 years now.Since the organisation is european and based in europe.Often people accuse the organisation of converting to christainity.Though these accusations are based on nothing but rumours and gossips.We are pretty confident that the organisation has no agent other than running.. More
Hi, I'm a student and I just moved to an unislamic country Australia due study reasons. I'm doing my masters from here. And inorder to save money for my tuition fee I need to save a lot of money; for that I need to work. When I came here I started working at subway & dominoes but I realise it now that "preparing and serving of halal food is unlawful"... More
Assalamu 'Alaykom. I'd like to ask: How if i paid a membership site for me to access videos exclusively for law student or any other field. It says in every video that "Any attempt to illegally download and/or distribute the videos is prohibited. However you can watch the video as many times as you can" but for a limited period only. What if I will.. More
Assalamu alaikum, According to Fatwa 82653, a person can copyright one of his creations. I am a bit confused about this Hadith, "Whoever takes hold of a lawful thing before others, he has more right to possess it than others". Does it apply to imagination? Can someone copyright an imagination because he imagined it first? For example, say there is a.. More
Asalam-u-Alykum, brother. Let me first explain what kickstarter is?Kickstarter is a crowdfunding platform. The company’s stated mission is to help bring creative projects to life. There's no loan or interest involved. People willing fund your business without wanting anything return. So, my question was whether I could fund my business through it?.. More
Is this type of business promotion haram? A weather promotion is a marketing program in which the assured offers a full or partial refund or rebate on the purchased product or service, should a future weather event occur. For example there is “Rainy Day Promotion” where, if it rains at least an inch on a specified day, the product purchase price.. More
As-salamualikum. I am A. K. M. Nur Alam Siddiki from Dhaka, Bangladesh. I need a fatwa. Recently I have signed in for an “VISA Islamic Credit Card” which is based on “Bai-Murabha” that means buying goods and services and selling it to the customers with markup profit. It can be sold to the customers against full payment at the time of sale or.. More