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  • A legitimate form of trade

    Nasir runs a financial company and gives money to people for their business from the company in the following form: A man has a shop of cloth in the market, the forementioned company sends its field officer to the shopkeeper and asks him from where he purchased the cloth? For example, he replies that he purchases it from DD cloth merchant. Then the.. More

  • Secret assessment of employees' performance in a traffic company

    Assalaamu alaykum. There is a traffic company that is offering a job that is a part of an improvement project. They are offering extra jobs as a "mystery passenger" where your job is to check up on the quality of the staff and the enviroment of the company by asking questions to the staff and do observations. What I have understood is that your are.. More

  • Avoiding paying taxes on bank deposits

    Assalaamu alaykum. I have some money which I kept in a Islamic Bank. The Bank gives me profits. Here, I do not find any service from the government, but the government taxes it. Am I bound to pay it? Of course, if I do not want to pay it, then I am to submit a statement concealing my income or showing the income on someone - who is actually not owner.. More

  • Repayment of loan with smaller sum but with interest

    A few years ago, I took a loan that says that you do not have to pay anything back when your income stays under a certain amount. I knew that it could stay under that amount, so I took the loan. Now, many years later, I am considering working for a few years but with the only reason to give away all the money. Is this allowed or forbidden taking into.. More

  • Man's children from one wife are not heirs to his other wife

    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 1 - Additional information: My mother expired a few days ago and she owned property.. More

  • Division of inheritance among a wife, two daughters and two nephews

    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 2 - Does the deceased have female relatives who are entitled to inherit: (A daughter) Number 2 (A wife) Number 1 .. More

  • Working in store that sells Israeli products

    I asked you the following question, but you referred me to other fatwas that I did not understand. I also have OCD (obsessive compulsive disorder). Please answer me with yes or no. May Allaah reward you. my Question is: Assalamu alaykum. I work in a store that sells beds, home stuff, and furniture as a stocker and sales associate. The store does.. More

  • Disputes should be raised to Islamic Court

    My grandfather had six children (two sons and four daughters). My father was his second child and the eldest son, my grandfather had purchased agricultural land in the name of my father and it was given on contract to farmers from the time that it was purchased. My father was the only one who was collecting the money from the farmers and he used to.. More

  • Division of inheritance between the deceased's husband and full-sister

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

  • Working in hospitals and schools where there is mixing

    Assalaamu alaykum. If a person works in a hospital in the West and has to registrate, book, and receive bookings from people. Is it permissble to do that if it involves free mixing between men and women? For example, if a woman is booking an appoinment with a male doctor and vice versa, will the receptionist be sinful or contributing or helping in a.. More

  • Buying shares in new company through lottery process

    Assalaamu alaykum. In Bangladesh, when a new company comes into the stock market, it is entered by IPO. This process is a lottery system. Here, however, if you do not win the lottery, they give your money back. Nevertheless, their system is a lottery process. And if you win the lottery, they always give you more then original amount. So my question.. More

  • A male doctor treating female patients without necessity

    Assalaamu alaykum. Please answer this question because the answers that I was given are not accurate for my situation. I want to know whether I can become a physician working in an emergency department or urgent care center? I am male. In these fields, I am randomly assigned patients, female or male, even if there is a female physician present. Also,.. More

  • A loaned item must be returned even after lapse of a long time

    Assalaamu alaykum Shaykh. More than 10 years ago, when I knew nothing about Islam, I took my friend's walkman (an electronic device) and she agreed, but I did not return it back. Now she is in another country and we are not connected like before. Also, there is no use in this device anymore but I still have it and did not throw it away. What should.. More

  • Ruling on usurping price and rent of property

    Dear Shaykh, A person known to me bought a property in 1989 for SL rupees 2.5 cores and offered another person, also known to me, 1/3 share for SL rupees 85 laks. He agreed and gave the above money on trust that he will accommodate him for 1/3 share in the title deed of the property, but he has not done that to date, nor has he paid any rent that he.. More

  • Son's widow does not inherit from her mother-in-law

    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 4 - Additional information: My father died long ago and my mother brought up her two.. More