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  • Violating optical insurance terms

    Assalaamu alaykum.1- My company gives me optical insurance of QAR 3,000/- annually. Can I use this for another person if the optical shop agree, or could I buy something for myself and then give that to another person? 2- Optical insurance covers only lenses and frames, not sunglasses. There is one optical shop that gives sunglasses on the insurance.. More

  • Buying shares and selling them on same day

    I trade in the stock market. I follow the sharia rules in choosing companies while buying stocks. I have read on your website or somewhere else that buying and selling in the same day (intraday trading) is similar to gambling and is thus prohibited as there is a common fact that one cannot sell what he does not possess. The exchange delivers the stocks.. More

  • Division of inheritance between deceased's father and son

    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 (A father) .. More

  • Division of estate among a wife, father, mother and three daughters

    Assalaamu alaykum; Please calculate the inheritance according to the following information: - Does the deceased have male relatives who are entitled to inherit: (A father) (A full brother) Number 1 (A nephew from a full brother) Number 2 - Does the deceased have female relatives who are entitled to inherit: (A mother [of the deceased]) (A daughter).. More

  • Fee of intermediary as a percentage of the sale price

    There are two brothers who sold land, and there was an intermediate who took 28% of the money. It was not his daily job, and after the sale went through, the second brother discovered that his nephew was the buyer. The first brother knew that but did not say anything to his brother. The intermediate was the brother of the buyer. My question is: is it.. More

  • Unmarried children not entitled to extra share of inheritance for marriage expenses

    Assalaamu alaykum. My Question is the following: Mr. A had 3 sons and a daughter. Mr. A bore the expenses of marriage for his two elder sons before his death. After A's death, his two elder sons claimed that since the father had borne the expenses during his lifetime, it was a gift and the younger brother and sister have no right to claim any expenses.. More

  • Division of inheritance among a wife, a grandmother, and a son

    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 wife) Number 1 (A grandmother [from the mother]) .. More

  • Earnings of a physician from health insurance

    Assalaamu alaykum. I am posting this question on behalf of one my brothers who is a doctor. As you know, the whole private system of healthcare runs on the basis of insurance. However, only sharia-based insurance is allowable. I want to know the ruling on my earning because its source is insurance. Also, what about taking insurance benefits for treatment.. More

  • Accepting a gift for helping students solve exam questions

    Assalaamu alaykum. Please, I am scared and need to know if what I did is haram or not. Somebody came to me to help their students to solve some questions needed for an exam. Although I initially refused to do it, he later told me that its because they do not have a teacher. However, after I finished the work. he gave me money, which I never requested,.. More

  • Working in IT company that provides a search engine

    Assalaamu alaykum wa rahmatullaahi wa barakaatuhu. I work for a big IT company (like Google). One of the main goals of this company is to provide good web-searches for users. However, a lot of internet-users are looking for pornography, so in some indirect sense, if we are improving web-searches in general, then we are helping some people to better.. More

  • Division of inheritance between the father, the son, and the 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 (A father) (A full brother) Number 2 (A half brother [from his father]) Number 6 (A nephew from a half brother [from his father]) Number 5 (A full paternal uncle) Number 1 (A.. More

  • Business partner does not contribute money or effort to the joint business

    Assalaamu alaykum dear Sirs, I am a business man. We agreed, my friend and I, to establish a business for supplying the companies with industrial materials; this type of business particularly depends on the cash flow for buying the materials and then sell them to the companies, and it also depends on business expertise and experience, like searching.. More

  • Renting a house bought with a usurious loan

    Assalaamu alaykum. Me and my family live in a non-muslim country. I would like to ask a question about a situation regarding me and my husband. My husband’s mother is not a Muslim. After many years of telling her that buying a house with interest is haram and explaining her about the punishment for those who are taking use of interests – she does.. More

  • None of the heirs has the right to delay division of inheritance

    Assalaamu alaykum. We are four brothers and three sisters in Pakistan. After the death of our parents, we need to sell the house, but one of my sisters refused to sell the house without any reasonable reason. She said that she is not interested in selling the house. It seems like she does not want anyone else getting their part of their inheritance.. More

  • Tawarruq transactions are permissible

    Assalaamu alaykum! May Allah reward you for your services towards Islam. I have a question. What is the ruling regarding an investment in the following way: I buy call recharge cards from a shop for 1000 riyals and sell it to my friend for 1140 riyal (14% profit) with a condition that he should return the money to me after 3 months. He sells the cards.. More