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  • Avoiding financial dealing with someone whose earnings are forbidden

    In your Fatwa 85295 "It is safer to avoid financial dealing with one whose wealth is a mixture of Halaal and Haraam" you advised the sister to avoid tutoring the banker. My question relates to Fatwa 90517 "Interest free mortgages through an English bank", where you quoted a Hadeeth related to the Prophet  sallallaahu  `alayhi  wa  sallam ( may  Allaah exalt his mention ) and his companions.. More

  • Using untrue receipts to avoid taxes

    Can you tell whether the following transaction is permissible? There is an agency which donates several items including foodstuff to the poor and needy. For instance if the market value of a cookie pack is $5 but this agency buys it for only $1. If I give them $100 they buy 100 cookie packs and give me a receipt of $500 (as market value of 100 packs.. More

  • Buying and selling dogs kept for lawful purposes

    I have one question and I hope I could be as clear as possible. I have heard that selling or buying dogs is Haraam, in the sense of being in the business itself; or for example since we have a dog in our garden and now we are leaving the villa so we have to give the dog away or sell him. So if we sell it is it Haraam? I do know that dogs are dirty.. More

  • Taking usurious loan to achieve lawful purposes

    Is there any good day to be scheduled for marriage? Or it is a sin to ask questions like this. How about the position of the head of the bed or the position of our head (example, to Qiblah, etc.). When sleeping anytime especially at nigh (its good and bad positions)? Is the money taken from loan (with interest from the bank) to be given as dory.. More

  • Money of a deceased person who left no relatives

    When a person who saves money in the house of his friend. Suddenly dead and without any agreement and without leaving behind any relatives or anybody to claim. So what that friend can do he take his money or what?.. More

  • Investment with the guarantee of capital money plus profit

    I have a manufacturing business and due to shortfall of capital I want to seek an investment from some one. If I seek investment such as Rs. 100000/- from a person for a period of one month without fixing any percentage of profit and saying that total of profit earned through this Rs. 100000/- will be divided equally between us. Although, I calculate.. More

  • Getting percentage of invested money for surfing ads

    Recently, I found a couple of websites that let you invest with them, how ever dealing with them doesn't look as usury as it works different that being usury. For example: www.studiotraffic.com, www.12dailypro.com. They let you invest any amount less than 6000$. 1) Which you can't withdraw once you invested. 2) And you get a constant percentage.. More

  • Purchasing imitated goods

    I have two questions: 1) Are counterfeit products permissible for purchase like branded products? (2) What are the signs to know if your sins are forgiven by Allaah? .. More

  • What to do with extra money got from life insurance

    My aunt has bought insurance 18 years back by her son's name. She has submitted 50 thousand rupees in these 18 years gradually. Now according to that insurance she will get 1 lakh rupees but these more 50 thousand rupees are "Ribaa" according to our limited knowledge. Please confirm it. You if it so then what should she do of that extra 5o thousand.. More

  • When the co-partnership starts

    My question is about Mudhaarabah: When the Mudhaarabah starts according to Sharee'ah. Does the Mudhaarabah starts when the body partner (Mudhaarib) starts the work? What if the capital partner asks the body partner to starts working, then say to him that the Mudarabah between us will starts after one year for instance, is this permissible.. More

  • Pension for retired worker

    I am working in a private company. According the rules the employer is entitled to give gratuity and allowances (not bonus or dividend) in accordance with the service of the employee when he/she leaves the firm. But some employers argue that it is not compulsory to give the gratuity and allowances. What is the Shariah ruling regarding this issue?.. More

  • Life insurance fully paid by the employer

    If I am working with a company and the company paid full cost for life insurance which will give money to my family after death. If I am working with the company when I pass away, and I am not paying anything on that, is it Halaal or Haraam to engage in such a system?.. More

  • Quran and Sunnah as a source of economics

    How the Quran and the Sunnah can be as the source of knowledge in economics? .. More

  • Maintenance worker on a dinner boat on which liquor is served

    Would you please clarify this matter for me? I work on a dinner boat. This boat has lunch and dinner crosses. They serve liquor in the boat. I don't work inside the boat, where they serve the liquor, but I do maintenance work on the out side (I'm a sailor). Know the boat's revenue consist of two different incomes. The first income comes from crossing,.. More

  • Taking commission from buyer and seller

    In Islam taking percentage commission from both buyer and/or sellers on a website allowed? Like ebay.com .. More