Business and Dealings

Q: If the governtment doesn't allow tution and someone makes money out of tution, then is the money haram or not?

Q: I am a chef working in a hotel restaurant. Is it permissible to work with haraam items such as alcohol and pig? I don’t have to touch it with my hands or taste it. I can use gloves when I touch it and work with it.

Q: Is it permissible to enter into a fixed plan with ones energy supplier? By fixed plan I mean entering into a contract to pay a fixed price per kWh for any gas/electricity used during the coming year. The alternative is to remain on a variable plan, which means that the price of the gas/electricity fluctuates depending on market prices.

Q: I have an amount of US Dollars which I purchased at R13.50 to a Dollar. Can I sell the Dollars at a higher price than what I paid for? The US Dollar rate as at today is R14.42

Q: There is a company called 3A Alliance. The comapny take's money from people for investing. They have a motorcycle company called Supreme. They take your money in advance which is RS,21 600. The total amount for the bike is RS,36 000 and they say that after 35 days we should come take the bike or sell it back to them. It means that they sell it to other wholeseller's across the city and once you have invested this Rs,21 600 amount they order a bike by your name every month and sell it to other's and give you some of the profit which is Rs,3500. It sometimes goes up and down every 2/3 month's

Is this halaal or haraam? The company also deals with other home appliannces like TV, refrigrators, water purifiers and they also say that if you don't like our company you can take whatever it is you have invested.

Q: Is Forex trading allowed in Islam?

Q: I am working for a Muslim family in their warehouse for more than 5 years. I have never been on holiday nor been paid for working in the holiday. When I asked them they told me that my 5 year holidays were gone (as per the law in our country). I know that by Allah, no right can be lost.

Note: Over these 5 years I thought I don't have a right of holiday as I work a few hours a week. No one from this family told me that I have a right for holiday. 

Q: I am residing in a rented house for the last 3 years and my monthly rent is being paid to a private owner by my organization. In future, I will remain living in the rented house. If I could get a loan from any bank to purchase a house for myself and pay the same monthly rent to the bank against that loan and in this way I shall become the owner of that house in 15-20 years time without affecting my financial liabilities. Is it Halal or Haram way?

Q: Person A intends to give some of her jewellery to her 6 year old minor. She then separates the jewellery that she wants to give to the child, from those she wants to keep for herself. 4 gold bangles with design, 1 was allocated to the minor. 4 gold bangles with design 2 was retained.

Person A would now like to make a small change whereby, the minor will have 2 bangles with design 1 and 2 bangles with design 2. Person A will have the other 2 of each design. Can this change be made? If there is a shortfall in value, Person A is happy to pay the minor the difference.

Scenario 2 Person B has 2 minor children, who are the offspring of 2 separate marriages. Person B has allocated some jewellery to the 2 minor daughters. Can any changes be made to this, as the children are still minors, and Person B was not fully aware of the rules of inheritance at the time of the allocation.

Q: If I invest 25 lakh rupees in a business of grocery items on the condition that I am allowed to take groceries worth 25,000 rupees per month, will it be halaal?