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  • 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

  • Dealing with interest-based banks with intention of empowering Muslims

    Assalaamu alaykum. I live in a secular country although about 60% of the population consists of Muslims. Interest is haram! The majority of our banks are interest based. If we, the Muslims, do not do busines (invest and conduct day-to-day business) with them, then the non-Muslims will control the economy, to our detriment, and likewise with the capital.. More

  • His employer's wife secretely violates company regulations

    Assalaamu alaykum. I am a corp member serving in a company. I am in charge of the general supervision of the company. My boss instructed me to keep records of everything including the sales. My boss' wife, however, will sometimes sell some goods and instruct me not to record it. Most of time, when I look at my boss, I feel guilty, but at the same time,.. More

  • Agreeing to conditions on a government support application

    Assalaamu alaykum. 1. I live in Germany and want to enter university. The German state gives financial support every month if you need it and ask for it. In order to get that money, you have to fill out some papers so that they know how much money you can demand. At the end of the formula, it says, for example, “I am aware that wrong statements.. More

  • Browsing social media during working hours

    When on duty during duty hours, can I skip a few moments and look into WhatsApp and Facebook or other social sites? Is it wrong on my part that I am cheating during my work hours? .. More

  • Lawfulness of the rent of a house bought with bribe money

    A person built a house with bribe money. Is the rent of this house halal or haram? Please give hadiths and Quran and answer the question. Please explain your answer. .. More

  • Sending gift goods to buyers while they are unaware of what they would receive

    I have a online business where I have a fixed prize for which I ship out a gift box. What is in the gift box is not known to the customer beforehand, he will only discover that after receiving it. Now my question is whether selling an item which is not shown to a customer but is outlined in our contract terms of services; that a customer might get something.. More

  • Loan processing fees are not considered interest

    Hello I am a poor student. My college gives all student a 120$ loan. Yes, it is a very small sum of money, but my family are poor and that amount can help me . However, my problem is that this loan has an interest rate of 4%. I cannot eat haram money. With this loan, the student must repay it by installments after five years. In other words, after five.. More

  • Paying secret commissions to corporate figures to shift to Islamic insurance

    Assalaamu alaykum. I work for a takaful(Islamic Insurance)companyin a GCC country as Head of Sales, my job is to increase the sales by targeting all the corporations. In this part of the world,since ages,it has been a practice or custom followed by this market to pay a certain commission under the table to the decision makers in the corporations to.. More

  • Division of inheritance among a wife, a mother, 3 sons, and 2 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 3 (A full brother) Number 1 -Does the deceased have female relatives who are entitled to inherit: (A mother [of the deceased]) (A daughter) Number 2 (A wife) Number 1 -Information.. More

  • Delaying work duties deliberately to get overtime pay for them

    Assalaam alaykum dear scholars. I have a question about my father's occupation. He works as an accountant in a petroleum company. He completes his job everyday except for some work that can be delayed, such as filing. He leaves the filing to do it on saturday, which is extra hours, not official work hours, in order to get overtime money. For the company,.. More

  • Division of inheritance among a mother, 3 daughters, and 2 sisters

    Assalaamu alaykum. Please calculate the inheritance according to the following information: - Does the deceased have female relatives who are entitled to inherit: (A mother [of the deceased]) (A daughter) Number 3 (A full sister) Number 2 - The Information about pregnant women from the relatives of the deceased are: (The wife of his full brother's son).. More

  • How to dispose of money if its rightful owner cannot be reached

    Hello, I used to be a crypto currency trader trading a currency known as bitcoin, to trade bitcoins you need to use an exchange market. The exchange market I used was called Mintpal. This exchange had problems and shut down because the owner took people's money and disappeared. Before the crash, they gave users a week to withdraw their bitcoins from.. More

  • Division of inheritance among a wife, three daughters and a full brother

    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 1 -Does the deceased have female relatives who are entitled to inherit: (A daughter) Number 3 (A wife) Number 1 .. More

  • Using one's connections to get a job

    Assalaamu alaykum. I am a student of graduate class (MSc) of an institution in Bangladesh. I was planning to do my thesis under the supervision of one of my professors who lives in the USA (he is a guest faculty of my institution). So I contacted him (through email) to request doing my thesis under his supervision. One day, he phoned me and asked me.. More