Permissible and Impermissible employment

Manner of charging students for tuition

Submitted by user2 on Thu, 2020-01-16 08:01

Q: I am starting a business providing tuition to students. Can I charge them per month to be paid at the beginning of the month at a fixed fee, say R100 per lesson for 8 lessons, so R800 for the month. My concern is that they might not attend all the lessons but they have already paid, is this permissible?

Earnings of an insurance broker

Submitted by user2 on Wed, 2019-10-09 07:29

Q: My father works in an insurance company which is being run by Muslims and follows Muslim laws. He himself is an insurance agent who does insurance of different people and the more people participate, the more commission he gets. I want to know whether the money he earns is considered halal? Because the insurance policies he introduces gives that person money time by time.

Earning by taking ID photos

Submitted by user2 on Tue, 2019-10-08 07:18

Q: I am currently employed by taking ID photos of people that want to make ID documents or want to renew their drivers licence. Am I commiting a sin? I have no other work to support myself or my family. Currently there is a demand for ID photos in my town. Even Muslim people come to me for photos for passports. Please advice me. 

Online advertising

Submitted by user2 on Tue, 2019-10-01 06:57

Q: Please clarify the following for me:

Generally, companies run through advertising and it thus plays a major part of many businesses. Therefore:

1. Some people specialise in doing the marketing/advertising for the company and get paid for their services.

2. Some people with computer abilities upload such ads on websites and get paid by the companies.

Are these types of jobs impermissible? If so, will magazines, radio stations etc. charging people for advertising also be impermissible?

Working as a software developer in a gaming company

Submitted by user2 on Thu, 2019-09-26 08:06

Q: I want to know if it is permissible to work in the gaming industry according to Islamic law.

The gaming company in question has many popular games but those games contain some aspects of nudity, violence and crime related missions. The job is not a game developer per se, but some other software development work like tools development, server handling and all.

My doubt is that even if it's some other software development work, isn't it ultimately helping in the release of the game and thus should be prohibited?

Muslim cashier scanning haraam items

Submitted by user2 on Thu, 2019-09-19 08:25

Q: I am working at a retail store as a cashier. The store also sells beer and pork and other meats... I only scan the item. Is my income haram?

I also have another job offer at a pizza restaurant that sells pizzas with toppings including chicken and bacon. Which is a better job for me? 

Earning through designing logos

Submitted by user2 on Mon, 2019-09-02 08:16

Q: I am a freelancer. Can I earn money by making logos? Is logo designing halaal or haraam and earnings from it is halaal or haraam?

Designing a bible app

Submitted by user2 on Mon, 2019-09-02 06:58

Q: I am a mobile application developer. I have been working on a bible mobile app for years. For a couple of days I am feeling that being a Muslim I should not have done this. Was it wrong? I will immediately stop doing it if this is not good but what should I do about my past, would taubah be enough?

Paying per hour and changing work hours

Submitted by user2 on Sun, 2019-09-01 07:24

Q: We at a school employ teachers who are paid per hour. Working hours are fixed by the administration. Can their working hours be reduced in the next year without their consent. E.g. a teacher started work in 2018 and he was given 4 hrs teaching. 50 rands a hour (2hrs in the morning and 2 hrs in the afternoon.

1. In 2019 can we reduce his working hrs to 3hrs a day without his consent. In other words his work and salary will be reduced.

2. Can we impose on him to teach more hrs e.g. 5 hrs and pay him accordingly.

Working in a glass manufacturing business that sells bottles to wine companies

Submitted by user2 on Thu, 2019-08-29 08:38

Q: After two months of unemployments, I found a job which manufactures glass bottles from scratch, literally from sand. Then they manufacture different sorts of empty glass bottles. They sell the empty bottles to juice companies like Snapple’s, Ketchup companies like Heinz, etc. More than 40 percent of their customers orders are from beer and wine companies which I found out later. Should I continue working here? I work in their software IT division.

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