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  • Earnings of a physician from health insurance

    Assalaamu alaykum. I am posting this question on behalf of one my brothers who is a doctor. As you know, the whole private system of healthcare runs on the basis of insurance. However, only sharia-based insurance is allowable. I want to know the ruling on my earning because its source is insurance. Also, what about taking insurance benefits for treatment.. More

  • Accepting a gift for helping students solve exam questions

    Assalaamu alaykum. Please, I am scared and need to know if what I did is haram or not. Somebody came to me to help their students to solve some questions needed for an exam. Although I initially refused to do it, he later told me that its because they do not have a teacher. However, after I finished the work. he gave me money, which I never requested,.. More

  • Working in IT company that provides a search engine

    Assalaamu alaykum wa rahmatullaahi wa barakaatuhu. I work for a big IT company (like Google). One of the main goals of this company is to provide good web-searches for users. However, a lot of internet-users are looking for pornography, so in some indirect sense, if we are improving web-searches in general, then we are helping some people to better.. More

  • Division of inheritance between the father, the son, and the wife

    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 1 (A father) (A full brother) Number 2 (A half brother [from his father]) Number 6 (A nephew from a half brother [from his father]) Number 5 (A full paternal uncle) Number 1 (A.. More

  • Business partner does not contribute money or effort to the joint business

    Assalaamu alaykum dear Sirs, I am a business man. We agreed, my friend and I, to establish a business for supplying the companies with industrial materials; this type of business particularly depends on the cash flow for buying the materials and then sell them to the companies, and it also depends on business expertise and experience, like searching.. More

  • Renting a house bought with a usurious loan

    Assalaamu alaykum. Me and my family live in a non-muslim country. I would like to ask a question about a situation regarding me and my husband. My husband’s mother is not a Muslim. After many years of telling her that buying a house with interest is haram and explaining her about the punishment for those who are taking use of interests – she does.. More

  • None of the heirs has the right to delay division of inheritance

    Assalaamu alaykum. We are four brothers and three sisters in Pakistan. After the death of our parents, we need to sell the house, but one of my sisters refused to sell the house without any reasonable reason. She said that she is not interested in selling the house. It seems like she does not want anyone else getting their part of their inheritance.. More

  • Tawarruq transactions are permissible

    Assalaamu alaykum! May Allah reward you for your services towards Islam. I have a question. What is the ruling regarding an investment in the following way: I buy call recharge cards from a shop for 1000 riyals and sell it to my friend for 1140 riyal (14% profit) with a condition that he should return the money to me after 3 months. He sells the cards.. More

  • Dealing with interest-based banks with intention of empowering Muslims

    Assalaamu alaykum. I live in a secular country although about 60% of the population consists of Muslims. Interest is haram! The majority of our banks are interest based. If we, the Muslims, do not do busines (invest and conduct day-to-day business) with them, then the non-Muslims will control the economy, to our detriment, and likewise with the capital.. More

  • His employer's wife secretely violates company regulations

    Assalaamu alaykum. I am a corp member serving in a company. I am in charge of the general supervision of the company. My boss instructed me to keep records of everything including the sales. My boss' wife, however, will sometimes sell some goods and instruct me not to record it. Most of time, when I look at my boss, I feel guilty, but at the same time,.. More

  • Agreeing to conditions on a government support application

    Assalaamu alaykum. 1. I live in Germany and want to enter university. The German state gives financial support every month if you need it and ask for it. In order to get that money, you have to fill out some papers so that they know how much money you can demand. At the end of the formula, it says, for example, “I am aware that wrong statements.. More

  • Browsing social media during working hours

    When on duty during duty hours, can I skip a few moments and look into WhatsApp and Facebook or other social sites? Is it wrong on my part that I am cheating during my work hours? .. More

  • Lawfulness of the rent of a house bought with bribe money

    A person built a house with bribe money. Is the rent of this house halal or haram? Please give hadiths and Quran and answer the question. Please explain your answer. .. More

  • Sending gift goods to buyers while they are unaware of what they would receive

    I have a online business where I have a fixed prize for which I ship out a gift box. What is in the gift box is not known to the customer beforehand, he will only discover that after receiving it. Now my question is whether selling an item which is not shown to a customer but is outlined in our contract terms of services; that a customer might get something.. More

  • Loan processing fees are not considered interest

    Hello I am a poor student. My college gives all student a 120$ loan. Yes, it is a very small sum of money, but my family are poor and that amount can help me . However, my problem is that this loan has an interest rate of 4%. I cannot eat haram money. With this loan, the student must repay it by installments after five years. In other words, after five.. More