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  • 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

  • Accepting a job in other than one's specialization

    I have recently graduated from college with a criminal justice degree in the United States. I have been called for an interview for a teaching job at a high school. Is this job halal for me to work in if I get hired? .. More

  • Division of estate that sons contributed to building with their father

    Respected Sir, I have two points to ask with respect to our joint family dispute: 1. We are three brothers with the same parents, and all of us are married and employed with different employers. We have two houses, one being constructed by our father, and for the other house, the contribution of one brother is 70%, and the remaining contribution was.. More

  • Exerting extra effort at work is rewardable

    Assalaam alaykum. I have a question about working for large corporations. I work as a shelf stocker for a large american corp, and this is one of those corporations that I believe ship jobs overseas to impoverished countries and pay them lousy wages. Is working for a company like this haram? Also, I like to go above and beyond in my job by, for example,doing.. More

  • Keeping money in someone else's bank account entails sharing profits

    Assalaamu alaykum. If someone deposited money in my savings account for safekeeping (alongside my money) and the Islamic bank gives me profit on the overall amount at fixed intervals, is it ok for me to use that money? Or is there a share in that profit that needs to go to this person who has deposited his money with me? If the latter is true, then.. More

  • Liability for causing damage unknowingly

    Assalaamu alaykum. Party A rented a room from a landlord. Party B was allowed to stay in the room by party A without any stated/signed terms. The landlord agreed. Party B was completely ignorant regarding the terms that Party A and the landlord agreed upon. Party A went overseas before the tenancy expired and entrusted Party B to vacate the room. The.. More

  • Division of inheritance among husband, mother, 3 brothers and 1 sister

    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 3 (A husband) - Does the deceased have female relatives who are entitled to inherit: (A mother [of the deceased]) (A full sister) Number 1 .. More

  • Died leaving 6 sons and 3 daughters from two husbands

    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 6 - Does the deceased have female relatives who are entitled to inherit: (A daughter) Number 3 - Additional information: Dear scholars, my question is regarding the inheritance.. More

  • Division of the estate among a wife, 5 sons and 3 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 (A grandson [from the son]) Number 3 - Does the deceased have female relatives who are entitled to inherit: (A daughter) Number 2 (A granddaughter [from the son]) Number 7 (A.. More