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  • Inheritance of 4 Wives, 7 Sons, and 9 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 7 -Does the deceased have female relatives who are entitled to inherit : (A daughter) Number 9 (A wife) Number 4 .. More

  • Advertising Forbidden Jobs

    assalamu alaikkum creating a jobs website is allowed or not? if someone post a job vacancy of bank that dealing with riba or someone post a job but not mention the company.i am the owner of the website these happens from my website so is it sin for me?(what types of jobs not allowed in foreign jobs?) .. More

  • Inheritance of Wife, Full-brothers and Full-sisters

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

  • It is Impermissible to Supply Pubs with Permissible Items

    I run a laundry service for restaurants and hotels. We supply them with table napkins, table cloths, chefs wear, bed linen, towels and so forth. My question is this:Am I able to supply a pub? The reason I ask this is that I view a restaurant as a place to primarily eat in. Even though they sell alcohol I see this as being secondary to their main purpose... More

  • Benefiting from Ill-gotten Earnings

    Sheikh my father earns in a treacherous way his income is totally haram to use but he buys everything from his income and I have nothing available to use so is it permissible for me to use those things he buyed with his income I have read that ill gotten wealth is totally haram and it must be returned to its rightful owner the house we live is also.. More

  • Unclear Question about Inheritance

    Aziz Fatima died. She was a widow with 4 real daughters 2 step sons & 3 step daughters. She had one real sister. How should her inheritance be distributed. .. More

  • Condemning attacks against homosexuals - competing for prize money

    Assalaamu alaykum. I have asked you a question on taking help from homosexuals for common human rights in the West, where homosexuality is allowed. You said that it is generally allowed to take help from them in the causes which benifit the Muslim community. I have another question: A year ago there was an attack on a homosexual club. This attack is.. More

  • Number of witnesses required for will

    Assalaamu alaykum wa rahmatullaahi wa barakaatuh. Does a will require witnesses? Male or female? How many witnesses are needed? .. More

  • Developing software that might be used in selling unlawful food items

    I work for a software company as a senior software engineer. My company, let us call it Company X develops a software for Company Y, which is another software company located in US. The service which we provide eventually generates some report using millions of pieces of data to aid big organizations to take their business decisions. Company Y sells.. More

  • Taking courses whose material may be violating copyrights

    Assalaamu alaykum. Shaikh, online course materials (books, graph, articles etc) may contain contents that are taken from their main content without consent of its original owner/maker/writer. Or the course (whether language learning, other type of courses) may be developed in such a manner that copyright may be violated. It is tough to investigate all.. More

  • Causing ink mark in someone's clothes unintentionally

    Assalaamu alaykum. I was sitting behind someone in a conference once,and he put his arm behind himself and his thawb touched my pen. I moved my pen away immediately, but I saw a small ink mark on his clothes, but I did not tell him because we were in the middle of the lesson and I wanted to tell him afterwards. However, I was not able to get the chance.. More

  • Receiving little extra change from cashier

    Assalaamu alaykum wa rahmatullaahi wa barakaatuhu. Shaykhs, here in Saudi Arabia, the currency is of certain numbers, but when I buy something, the remaining at times is either not given to me by the cashier or they give extra as the currency is of 0.25, 0.50, 1, 5, 10, 50, 100, and 500 riyals, as far as I know. What I mean is, if I purchased, for example,.. More

  • Working in data-entry in Riba-based bank

    Assalaamu alaykum. I am unemployed and have found a job in the data center of a bank that deals with interest, but the job is to enter cheque-related data in their computer system. These cheques are for business transactions or the employee payrolls of others companies. My question is whether I can take this job or not. God bless you. .. More

  • Forgetting exact amount of debt

    Assalaamu alaykum. What is the ruling if someone borrows money from another person and after a while does not remember how much money he has borrowed exactlyand even the person who lent the money do not remember? For example, let us say that I borrowed an amount of money from my brother, and we are almost sure that it was 500, and then after a while.. More

  • Working in organization that buys hotels abroad

    Is a job with a local government organisation that involves buying hotels in foreign countries haram? The hotels serve alcohol, which is why I am asking. Thank you. .. More