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  • Division of estate among husband, two sons and five daughters

    Assalaamu alaykum. Please calculate the inheritance according to the following information: - Does the deceased have male relatives who are entitled to inherit: (A son) Number 2 (A grandson [from the son]) Number 3 (A half brother [from his mother]) Number 2 (A husband) - Does the deceased have female relatives who are entitled to inherit: (A daughter).. More

  • Winning competition because of seemingly unfair advantage

    Assalaamu alaykum. In a competition in our office, we recently won a prize. Now, since the organizer of the event was part of our team, we had a slight unfair advantage because we had access to what other people were presenting. Although we did not copy their idea, access to the material of others gave us a sense of what was lacking in our presentation,.. More

  • Working in blood bank

    Assalaamu alaykum. A Muslim works at a blood bank and sends blood components to the hospital and outside the hospital, but each time the Muslim sends blood components, the recipient has to pay. The Muslim does not want to charge the recipient but cannot change the way things work at the hospital. Is it obligatory for that Muslim to quit this job? May.. More

  • Obsessive fear of selling eggs because of salmonella

    Assalaamu alaykum. I am from Ethiopia. I suffer from extreme OCD. My big problem now is that I want to start a bussiness, wich is selling chicken eggs, and, as we know, eggs transmit salmonella disease to people. So I fear that if you sell eggs, then you transmit the disease and people might die due to this, and then you will be responsible on the Day.. More

  • Marketing hotels that sell alcohol and pork and the like

    Assalaamu alaykum. I have a question regarding affiliate marketing of hotels where they also sell haram things such as alcoholic beverages and pork. When a client comes to my website and clicks on the add to go to the hotel and book it, I get a commission of a certain percentag. The only thing that I wish to know is the following: if the hotel serves.. More

  • Helping person settle interest-based loan

    Assalaamu alaykum. My wife's parents bought a house with an interest-based loan a few years ago, when they where not praciticing Muslims. They did not know it was haram back then. They became religious later and now want to finish paying for the house so that they can live rent free. The question is: Can I help them pay for the house so that they can.. More

  • Ruling on accepting a gift while expecting it or hoping for it

    Thank you for answering this question; however, it seems that you did not answer the other part that I asked about. Here is the link: https://www.islamweb.net/en/fatwa/2621384 I asked about the case in which a person is expecting or hoping for a gift to be given to him by someone without asking that person; is it haram to accept that gift? The holy.. More

  • Selling goats for grand wedding feasts and to non-Muslims

    Assalaamu alaikum. A person is selling goats. In his area, the Muslims are not aware of the Sharia of marriage compelling the girl's family to provide a feast in marriage, and many are conducting a grand marriage. So can a goat seller provide goats for this kind of marriages? I heard that a person should pet a goat before slaughtering it for Eid Al-Adhha,.. More

  • Buying products from multi-level marketing network

    My question is about direct selling or multi-level marketing business. I saw many fatwas on your website that say that it is haram. However, I have some specific questions. So please do not give any question link. In our country, there is a company that uses a direct selling policy. Their product is very useful. So I want to buy their product. 1).. More

  • Taking full housing allowance while owning part of house

    An organization provides/entitles rent for a house to its employees as a pay package. The organization pays rent to owner of the house in favor of its employee. If an employee and an Islamic bank are shareholders of a house in which he pays a monthly rent to the bank for its share in the house as well as purchases shares of the house on a monthly basis,.. More

  • Dividing wealth among heirs during lifetime

    Assalaamu alaykum Shaykh. My grandfather has distributed his properties to his descendants while he is still alive, and he is still alive at present, praise be to Allaah. Both my mom and my dad are still alive, I have only one sister from both my mom and my dad. However, my dad and mom have been separated since about four years (but they are not legally.. More

  • Money notes from usurious banks not unlawful

    Assalaamu alaykum. I live in Bangladesh. There are many Islamic Banks nowadays. Let us assume that all of them are Islamic. Nevertheless, they have to deal with the money notes of the Central Bank of Bangladesh which is a 100% interest-based bank. Some of my friends say that Islamic Banks cannot be halal because the money notes that they use come from.. More

  • Division of inheritance should not be delayed without reason

    Assalaamu alaykum. I am an Indian National, am 36 years old, and am a mother of two daughters (aged nine and six). My husband (41 years old) got into an accident and got a spine injury in June 2015. The doctors have given hope up for his recovery, and he cannot move at all because he is completely bedridden. My husband is the youngest in his house... More

  • Son's share of father's estate if he paid for sisters' marriage expenses

    Assalaamu alaykum. Please calculate the inheritance according to the following information: - Does the deceased have male relatives who are entitled to inherit: (A son) Number 1 - Does the deceased have female relatives who are entitled to inherit: (A daughter) Number 3 (A wife) Number 1 - Information about the deceased’s debts: (Debts to.. More

  • Renting out auditorium for non-Muslim or mixed weddings

    Assalaamu alaykum. In my country, the weddings, both of Muslims and non-Muslims, usually take place in auditoriums. For Muslim weddings, music, mixing, photography, and videography are very common. And for non-Muslim weddings, religious rituals also take place inside the auditorium. My mother says that renting out an auditorium for weddings is a halal.. More