Q: How is Islamic (Shari’ah) finance any different to normal commercial bank finance? In both types of finance, you pay more money than you initially borrowed. In fact, in most cases, when you compare the two options, Islamic finance costs more. Is Islamic finance really halaal?
Q: If a customer wishes to return an item that he purchased merely because he changed his mind and there was nothing wrong with the item, do I have to cancel the sale or can I refuse to cancel the sale?
Q: I have employed a salesman who will be paid a commission. The commission is percentage based, but there is a different percentage stipulated based on the amount of the sales. For example, for sales between R1 and R5000, the commission is 5%, but from R5001 to R10 000, the commission is 7.5%. Is this permissible?
Q: I am a boy and I dance on instrumental music only. My form of dancing is waving and stunts and does not contain any vulgar and obscene dance moves. It is just simple movements of my hands and legs, and I am a solo dancer so there is no intermingling of sexes involved in it. If I earn money through dancing, will my earnings be considered haraam?
Q: I would like to know what kind of slipper I can wear in the state of ihraam. Is it a must to wear a 2 belt slipper or I can wear the slipper which is open in the front and back?
Q: Is it correct to place a mayyit (dead body) for salaatul janaazah on a table instead of on the ground? The table is permanently fixed to the ground in some places and is unfixed (like a movable normal table) in some places.
Q: My little brother got urine on his boots at school (at the bottom and top of shoe) and then walked from school to home in the snow, getting them wet. When he came home, he walked through the living room, spreading the wetness from his shoes all over the house. I did my best to wipe all the wetness off the floor but I don't even know all the places the water from his shoes got. Do I consider my living room to be impure? How can I make it pure again? I will have to mop the living room and the rest of the house, it that ok?
Q: Is water-birth permissible if a woman has covered the necessary areas?
Q:
1. Is it permissible for a Muslim owned security company to provide a security system, monitoring and armed response to a business that deals primarily in the sale of alcohol. This involves a contract for installation of a security system at a cost after which the system is monitored also at a cost and in the event of an activation to respond by sending an armed guard to the site.
2. If this is prohibited in Shariah, what should one do with the monies that were collected?
3. In the event the contract cannot be terminated what solution is available?
Q: If a girl bleeds over ten days, will her next haidh start after 15 days of tuhr?