I am Muslim living in Canada. I am interested in buying a home but I cannot afford to pay the full amount in cash. The only way available for me is to buy on monthly/weekly installments. But these installments contains interest in it. I understand that interest is Haram, so what is the option available for me in this case... More
I keep my money at bank and I try my best not to utilize any interest earned on my money. Whenever I get interest I accumulate it and then give it to any needy person but before giving it to that person I do inform them that this is a interest money, am I doing it properly?.. More
I am a 29 years old Moroccan woman, I wear my veil, the last week I had a conversation with a French company which will be delocalized in Morocco while preserving its French customers. My station consists in validating the file of loan customers to check if they are in conformity with criteria that the company established. The activity of the company.. More
My mother wants to know if she can give me (her daughter) the house where we live as a Hiba (gift)? I am one of two daughters; my sister married last year and doesn't have a good relationship with our mother. I am studying and my mother wants me to have some security for my future.
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I want to open an account in a bank. In my Islamic country, there are two types of account, one gives you interest on your money per month (faeda) and the another without any (faeda). Can I open the first type and direct this interest to any Islamic cause, not as sadaqa or Zakah, as a gift? Or should I avoid this type of account and make only an account.. More
What is the ruling on asking many people to complete a questionnaire for a university research project, and informing them that everyone who volunteers will be entered in a draw for 1 small cash gift? What is the ruling on giving everyone who completes the questionnaire a token gift (e.g., pencil)?.. More
What does Shariah say about pension planning with some insurance companies that compensate give you or your family if you face incident or even death and after certain period it will give you a pension like salary for life?.. More
I am a Muslim computer engineer and mostly dealing with software and hardware for a few months I have been involved in a German insurance company. I am dealing with secondary pension planning which after 65 0r 60 years depending to men or women will provide you a pension yearly depending upon how much years before you started to save this money with.. More
I am a student of M.Sc computer science in USA. I am from Pakistan. I am facing financial difficulties in paying my tuition fees. If I don't pay my tuition fee I will have to go back without getting degree and all the money (savings of my parents) I use to pay tuition of first semester will be wasted. In this situation can I work at a place like gas.. More
A brother is married and he has 6 children, he has just had a heart operation, he and his family live in a non-Muslim country. He wants to go back home but he does not own a house for his own family. He does not have enough money to buy the house, he has tried several ways to get the loan needed but at last nobody would give him the loan needed, so.. More
Does Qur'an give the grandchildren the right to receive the inheritance from their grandfather for their dead mother? The grandfather died after his daughter. When they asked their right in their mother's heritage part in her father, they told them you have no right in it? I hope I expressed well the question. What should they do to get their right?.. More
My father left some money with me and died without telling me what to do with it. Can I donate it as charity (Sadaqa) for his soul? Can I donate it to some of his legal inheritors who are in real need or it should be shared by all the legal inheritors, given the fact that most of them are not in need to that amount of money and given the fact that if.. More
I work in the stock market. Someone wants to give me money to invest for him. I know some of his money is from credit card fraud, should I take the money to invest for him or not?
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