Offsetting a debt as zakaat
Q: My mother's brother is old and jobless. I gave him some money as debt, but he is unable to return it. Can I forgive his debt as zakat for the coming years?
Q: My mother's brother is old and jobless. I gave him some money as debt, but he is unable to return it. Can I forgive his debt as zakat for the coming years?
Q: Just want to find out which salaah's can be joined (read at the same time) when one is a traveller?
Q: I wish to inquire further regarding Mufti saabs ruling of installing atm machines on one's premises. Will the same ruling follow a card machine facility, with which many benefits exists but a customer may also pay with a credit card from haraam funds(interest bearing loan / overdraft, etc.)?
Q: I am in the property development business. I acquire properties and then use building contractors to put up residential or commercial developments. The problem is that the contractors often delay the project and do not complete it by the due date. To prevent this, can we fine them for each day that they delay?
Q: Someone wants me to tell the truth but if I say the truth my children's life would be in danger, can I give false truth by swearing on Qur'aan?
Q: Is divorce during pregnancy halaal? If a husband thinks he cannot move on with his relationship with his wife, can he divorce his wife during pregnancy? Whether yes or no, in either case, please explain when will the iddat terminate.
Q: Can my father marry my mother in-law?
Q: I am a beautician and I have read that it is haraam to shape the eyebrows. Does this only apply to me shaping my own eyebrows or does it apply to me shaping other people’s eyebrows for them as well? Secondly, will the ruling apply to non-Muslims as well?
Q: Can I work in a non-Muslim restaurant where I will have to serve haraam food?
Q:
1. A Muslim employee works for an engineering company, and the company is employed to do the engineering (beams, slabs, columns, foundations, etc.) for a temple. The Muslim employee is tasked with designing the structure by his boss. Is it permissible for him to do this?
2. Similarly, if a Muslim owns the engineering company and someone approaches him for this job, can he accept it?
3. What is the ruling if they are not involved in the actual temple, but are working on another building on the same land that has rooms, dormitories, toilets, etc. for the use of occupants of the temple?