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  • Using money other person earned from interest

    Assalaamu alaykum. I am a practising Muslim who lives in Pakistan. Praise be to Allaah, I have changed a lot after reading the Quran with translation; I have stoped doing those things which could make my Allaah angry and started doing those things which could make Allaah happy; I have started loving Prophet Muhammad  sallallaahu  `alayhi  wa  sallam ( may  Allaah exalt his mention ) more.. More

  • Paying money to avoid standing in queue

    Assalaamu alaykum. I have a question: if it permissible for me to pay money in order to not stand in line when getting a drivers license? Is it like paying an agent some money just to get the work done instead of getting into ques? And is an urgent fee haram? I am merely paying the person to expedite the process which I would be waiting a lot of time.. More

  • Hajj organizer using Hajj funds for his own benefit

    Assalaamu alaykum. Dear Sheikh, some Hajj candidates paid a sum of money to a Hajj organizer who promised that those Hajj candidates will take their flight for Hajj after a waiting period of about 10 years (due to abundant Hajj candidates). During that waiting period, is it permissible for the Hajj organizer to use that money to build a building or.. More

  • Doctor treating opposite gender without necessity

    Assalaamu alaykum. If a male or female doctor examines and treats patients of the opposite gender without necessity, is their income halal? .. More

  • Working for company established with interest-based loan

    Assalaamu alaykum. I have two specific questions based on interest. Firstly, I would like to know; if a company takes an interest-based loan to sustain or even build itself and hires employees, which is the case for most companies these days, is it impermissible to work for these companies? For example, working in the engineering, logistics and other.. More

  • Getting commercial car insurance to work and support family

    Assalaamu alaykum. May Allaah bless you. I would like to work for a company called Uber as a driver with my own car. The issue is that the company requires that the car be insured in order to be accepted to work with the company. In the country in which I live, insurance is not deemed obligatory by the government. However, the company makes it mandatory.. More

  • Assigning profit in partnership-Mudhaarabah contract

    My friend is conducting a business and asked me to invest some money in his business. I gave him two lacs taka (Bangladeshi currency) without any contract. The percentage of profit which he will give me was not discussed and not written in a contract. He gives me a part of the profit after 3/4/6 months, but it is not fixed amount. When he makes a big.. More

  • Recording interest on late tax payment

    I am an accountant and I have my own accounting practice; one of the services I offer is to bring the tax payers up to date if they have not disclosed income before. In this service, after all calculations, we have to work out the tax liability as well as the interest due on the late paymentwith a government calculator. I wanted to know the following:.. More

  • Using stolen bike to go to work

    Assalaamu alaykum. I have a question regarding doing business based on funding that is mixed from permissible and prohibited sources. I have several scenarios: - The first scenario is the following: if I have a bike which I got from someone who stole it. I know that this is wrong, but let us say that I still use the bike for work. Does this makes.. More

  • Paying bank charges from interest money

    Are we allowed to pay our bank charges with interest money? For example, the money that the bank charges for the withdrawal of our own halal money? We do not want interest; we do not want to use it in anyway; we just want to give back their money which they give as interest in the form of bank charges. If we do not pay these charges to the bank from.. More

  • Impermissible to sell jobs to job seekers

    Is it allowed for me to sell a job to a job seeker provided that the company gets the full amount of money provided by the job seeker? .. More

  • Dividing estate among husband, two daughters and six siblings

    Assalaamu alaykum. Please calculate the inheritance according to the following information: - Does the deceased have male relatives who are entitled to inherit: (A full brother) Number 5 (A nephew from a full brother) Number 15 (A husband) - Does the deceased have female relatives who are entitled to inherit: (A daughter) Number 2 (A full sister).. More

  • Violating state regulations in building house

    Assalaamu alaykum. About four years ago, my father (who is, praise be to Allah, still with us) bought a piece of land for which we paid money from halal earnings (even I contributed from my salaries in the purchase). After some time, we started the construction, and again with halal earnings (I also contributed in this). However, while filling the land,.. More

  • Spending money on other than it was donated for

    Hi. My family is poor, and they do not have a regularly income. They were in need of two beds and a little table. So they asked the government to give them some financial aid, and some people from the government visited the house to see the situation. They approved the aid and gave the family 500 dollars. They said that they could use 200x2 for two.. More

  • Division of inheritance among two sisters and one nephew

    Assalaamu alaykum. Please calculate the inheritance according to the following information: - Does the deceased have male relatives who are entitled to inherit: (a nephew from a full brother) Number 1 - Does the deceased have female relatives who are entitled to inherit : (a full sister) Number 2 .. More