Q: Is it haram or halal to do events managing business. Event management activities on the request of the customer includes providing fancy decoration, catering, decorating stage, arranging DJ for music. Please also clarify which activity is permissible and which is not. The events include birthday parties, wedding ceremonies, bridal shower (party before wedding), baby shower (party before birth of baby).
Q: Is it permissible to buy and sell ladies clothes? Nowadays, the clothes are according to the latest trend and fashion in the market which is not in our control. The clothes include shirts and trousers which ladies wear nowadays. Is it halaal or haraam?
Q: Is it permissible to work as a cashier in a gas station, where liquor, lottery tickets, cigarettes, haraam food, etc. are sold on an hourly basis?
Q: Sometimes store owners ask us to help them out with stock that has not been sold and is sometimes past the sell by date.
1. Is it permissible to give them back the full value of the stock as a credit?
2. Is it permissible to swap the stock directly for a fresh lot?
Q: I gave R500 000 to a factory owner as an investment. Every single month, he gives me R30 000. Is that R30 000 halaal or haraam?
Q: My municipality water account has run high due to unforeseen reasons. The amount is not a substantial amount. I am old and currently receiving pension. It will take me many many years to pay it off. Please advise if interest money can be used to pay it off.
Q:
1. If I borrow a certain amount of money from a person with the intention of paying back the exact amount to my lender but the money that has been lended to me is money that has been borrowed by my lender that has agreed to pay back with riba to his lender. Can I use the money knowing this?
2. If I lend a person money but the person pays back my money from borrowing from another person with riba? Can I accept?
3. If a person gives me a gift but I doubt if the gift is bought from haraam money. Can I take it?
4. I lend someone $180 but they pay back me $200 without me asking can I keep?
Q: Is it halaal to open a cafe where there will be mix gathering? If it is haram how can one avoid this haram thing in a cafe? I am a teenage girl and my father is opening the cafe but he does not practice Islam well. Please advice us on how we could avoid haraam?
Q: The profit which a bank monthly offers against bonds/certificates is halaal or not?
Q: Ali sells tape to a shopkeeper. Can we also sell tape to the same shopkeeper by purchasing in bulk from Ali and sell to his same customer?