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  • Using phone credit as price for objects

    Assalaamu alaykum. I know that a mobile phone credit transaction is permissible because the commodity we bought is not the same as money (it is a calling service, which has a value). Recently, however, there are so many transactions which involve real objects paid for by those balances. For example, the Google Play Store sold an application, and one.. More

  • Bequest of Muslim to non-Muslim relatives and charities

    Assalaamu alaykum. Please calculate the inheritance according to the following information: - Does the deceased have male relatives who are entitled to inherit: (A husband) - Additional information: An American Muslim married woman who lives in the USA wants to write a will. It is her wish to leave part of her heritage to her non-Muslims relatives.. More

  • Division of inheritance among wife, 4 sons and 4 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 4 - Does the deceased have female relatives who are entitled to inherit: (A daughter) Number 4 (A wife) Number 1 - The will which the deceased left behind and that is.. More

  • Division of inheritance among wife, 2 daughters, and one full-sister

    Assalaamu alaykum. Please calculate the inheritance according to the following information: - Does the deceased have female relatives who are entitled to inherit: (A daughter) Number 2 (A wife) Number 1 (A full sister) Number 1 (A half sister [from the father]) Number 1 .. More

  • Providing travel services to Sikh tourists to visit their temples

    I am a travel agent, I need to ask regarding providing transportation and accomodation services to Sikh Yatries who will travel to Pakistan from the USA in order to visit their sacred places in Pakistan. I have nothing to do with any of their religious activities. We just have to provide them with accomodation and transportation to their destinations,.. More

  • Engaging in financial transactions with a non-Muslim

    In the name of Allah Almighty. Question: Transaction with a Non-Muslim who has no belief in Allah. A Muslim will purchase an item and the payment will be made by a non-muslim. The Muslim person knows that the other person is dealing with bank loans and interests. A fixed charge or commission will be paid for each purchase. The purchase will be done.. More

  • Helping job seekers find jobs that may include unlawful aspects

    Assalaamu alaykum. A friend and I are thinking about starting a business in Europe, where we live. In short, our 'product' will link people who want to work with people who are looking for workers. Our question is, since Europe is not an Islamic country, some company might, for example, want someone to work in a restaurant in which alcohol is served.. More

  • Taking lost and found items that are regularly disposed of

    Assalaamu alaykum. I work in a gym in Canada, and we have a lost and found. Items could be sunglasses, wallets... At the end of every month, every item that is not claimed by its owner is thrown away with the garbage. My questions is: can I take any item from the lost and found before we get rid of the items? I know that in Islam you wait for a year.. More

  • Doing personal work in free time during working hours

    Assalaamu alaykum. I have come to know that if we have finished our work and still have free time, it is permissible to do our personal activities, and we are entitled to the salary if we stayed available during the time prescribed. What if I use this spare time to support my freelance work? This means that I am getting paid for freelance work that.. More

  • Salesperson exchanging item against store policy

    Assalaamu alaykum wa rahmatullaahi wa barakaatuhu, Shaykhs. In answer to my question that is stated in your fatwa No. 341797: what I am asked to do is impossible for me now, as that deal happened while I was in that land, but now I am in Makkah, and I have permanently migrated from that land since the end of February. In addition, that piece of cloth.. More

  • Dividing inheritance among wife, father and mother

    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 paternal uncle) Number 5 (A cousin from a full paternal uncle) Number 20 - Does the deceased have female relatives who are entitled to inherit: (A mother [of the deceased]).. More

  • Parent asking to take back what he gifted to his child

    Assalaamu alaykum. My father gifted me some property five years ago and transferred it to my name. Last year, when I was getting married, he asked me to return the property. I did not want to return it, so after I got married, I sold it without asking my father. When I told him about that, he got angry and asked for the money which I got from selling.. More

  • Activity of employee governed by contract with employer

    A person works for a private company as a professioanal engineer. In return for his service, the company gives him a salary once every month. Regardless of whether he comes late or earlier, and whether he goes home late or earlier, the company gives him the same salary, unlike wages, which are counted for every hour that one is present. He does his.. More

  • Causing unintentional damage to neighbors' property

    Shaykh, today I committed what may be a very big sin! Here in my town, there are many monkeys who disturb us in many ways. Today, while I was laying in bed, a monkey suddenly started pulling my broadband wire, so I immediately went outside and threw something towards the monkey, but I missed it and it hit my neighbours electric meter. Some plastic of.. More

  • A Muslim couple wishing to leave their house to their adopted child

    Asalaamu alaykum. A muslim couple have an adopted daughter and no other children.They would like to give her their house; however, she cannot inherit Islamically. How can they ensure that she gets the house? .. More