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  • His brother may use his father's gift in an unlawful manner

    My father bought some property in my home country. He wants to give me some portion of this property. However, this means I would have to visit my home country, something I don't want to do because of personal reasons. If I don't take this property, my father may give it to my brother, and my brother may misuse this property. Will I be responsible if.. More

  • A hen whose owner is unknown wandered into his backyard

    Assalamualaikum. pls there is this domestic animal(hen) that strayed into my backyard and since then she has refuse to go. She has made my backyard her home. she even layed eggs and hatched the eggs into little chicks. I contacted my neighbors to ask if there is anybody looking for a lost domestic animal so as to return it but no response. my question.. More

  • Died leaving only one half-sister from the father's side

    Assalaamu ‘Alaykum; Please calculate the inheritance according to the following information -Does the deceased have female relatives who are entitled to inherit : (A half sister (from the father)) Number 1 .. More

  • Ruling on applying Islamic laws of inheritance on non-Muslims

    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 2 (A grandson (from the son)) Number 1 -Does the deceased have female relatives who are entitled to inherit : (A wife) Number 1 - The will which the deceased left behind and.. More

  • Dividing inheritance among a full-sister and three daughters

    Assalaamu ‘Alaykum; Please calculate the inheritance according to the following information -Does the deceased have male relatives who are entitled to inherit: (A full paternal uncle) Number 1 -Does the deceased have female relatives who are entitled to inherit : (A daughter) Number 3 (A granddaughter (from the son)) Number 1 (A full sister) Number.. More

  • Violating licensing conditions of software programs

    Assalamu alaikum. Is the money obtained from developing/making software using haram tools(e.g. pirated software, illegal internet connection, illegal electricity connection, computer bought using ill gotten money, and so on) haram? If a vendor of a software I bought stated in the license that I can't make more than one copy of the software for backup.. More

  • A debt is paid back by returning the borrowed object or its equivalent

    Question : As name of Gift, can pay amount of loan ? Zaid has given loan to a friend Asif. After few months, zaid wanted to have a new mobile but he can't because of financial issue. He told to Asif abt it and Asif not wanted to break his friend's heart. So Asif told to Zaid to present him a new mobile as Eid Gift. And zaid accepted it. But after sending.. More

  • Ruling on signing up with stores to acquire points upon purchasing products

    I would like to know if this is permissible, there is a shop that gives a free card to anyone that signs up for it, when you purchase items from that shop you earn points, the amount of points depend on how much you have spent if you have spent a lot you get more points. Over time the points add up and then turn into money which is given as a voucher.. More

  • Impermissible to possess money given by state for infrastructure maintenance

    A man who used to be a government official in a kafir country that is hostile to islam was given a sum of money from his country in order to maintain some infrastructure in his local village however turmoil and chaos befell his country and so he fled his country with this sum of money. What is the ruling of this money? .. More

  • He faces problems while running his father's business

    Assalamu Alaikum My qn is regarding Business transaction and ethics. Please help me regarding this. May Allah bless you. I am a young businessman who joined my dad's business recently. We rent heavy trucks for rent to companies in Qatar. So my doubts are us follows: 1- we provide trucks to a company. Now, the official of that company is insisting on.. More

  • Ruling on withdrawing from an employment contract

    Salam , i am visiting the site for the first time with a hope to get an answer for my question. If a person has signed a bond or an agreement with his employer that he is willing to serve for a mentioned period to serve the organisation and latter on he finds the job not satisfactory and wants to leave .Now the organisation is not letting him leave.. More

  • Dies leaving 2 daughters, 2 full-brothers and 1 full 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 2 -Does the deceased have female relatives who are entitled to inherit : (A daughter) Number 2 (A full sister) Number 1 .. More

  • Taxes do not justify taking an interest-based loan from the state bank

    Asslamualaykum v.v. I am working in Government company.Hence i am government employee.As company offer me to give HOME LOAN of Rs.1550000/-[fifteen lacs fifty thousands] on 5-6% intrest.I also know that Riba is haram in islam,but being a government company ,every year i pay income tax+profession tax of total Rs.15000-Rs.20000/-app [per year] to government.. More

  • Working in a field that involves committing prohibitions except in case of necessity

    Shaykh I'm from Kashmir. As you know it's a disputed land having very few opportunities of jobs with which a person can run a family because here we don't have industries etc. Everything is messed up here. We have jobs here but they provide peanuts which is not sufficient to suffice your cellphone bill let alone run a family. Our youth move on to gulf.. More

  • Ruling on online Forex margin trading

    Assalaamu 'alaykum Is online forex margin trading halal or haram? My question might be cleared by the following example: I trade currency via an online trading platform. If I want to buy 100,000 USD (1 lot), I only need 1,000 dollars as margin to make the trade. It is called 'leverage'. I will get profits or losses regarding to my transaction; if I.. More