Q: A person has two out buildings on his property which he rents out. One is attached to the house which he is living in, he is also earning a salary. His total monthly income is more than double the zakaat nisaab amount. However, by the middle of the month, he doesn’t have any money left. He also owes his wife and some relatives some money. Is it permissible for such a person to accept Zakaat?
Q: I have a problem with sincerity. No matter how much I try to purify an intention for an action whilst I am doing it, I think: if only so and so could see me now. They would think so highly of me which deprives me of the reward. What can I do to ensure ikhlaas and stop desiring the praise and attention of people because love for fame is a disastrous thing?
Q: As this is the era of social media and most of us are involved in it, my question is:
If I share a post on social media which is uploaded by someone else, and the post contains pictures or videos of non-mahrams, and some people viewed that post because of my sharing, what implication is there for me in Allah Ta'ala's court?
Q: Vodacom has a service called airtime advance whereby a person can purchase R5 or R10 airtime on credit. After you purchase the airtime, then at a later time within a stipulated period, they will recoup the R5 or R10 plus an additional R1 which they term a service fee. Will this constitute riba?
Q: I want to start working for Uber Eats as a delivery driver, but I am afraid that some of the orders may be for haraam food. One of my friends told me that I will be able to view the orders on my phone. In this way, I will be able to view all the items in the order and can then ensure that I only accept to deliver orders that are for halaal food. If this is true, can I take the job?
Q: I am studying at a university which has maintained some green areas with fertile soil in the campus for students. Other unmaintained places in the campus have unfertile, dry soil. I have a potted plant in my room and it needed more fertile soil, but I did not know any gardening shop to buy fertile soil from. So I got fertile soil from the maintained green areas and added that to my potted plant.
Is taking this soil from the campus' maintained green areas permissible or is it stealing?
Also, will it be permissible to take the dry soil from unmaintained areas of the campus?
Q: In Islam, is offering condolences limited to three days? If a person passes away on Monday and is buried on Tuesday, how will one calculate three days? From the day he passed away or the day he was buried?
Q: Can we use toys with some kind of sound to stop a baby from crying?
Q: In business, we sometimes suffer great losses when our debtors fail to pay us. To secure ourselves against these losses, we take out credit guarantee (CGIC).
How it works is that I tell CGIC, for example, that the general amount of money owed to me by my debtors at any given point is approximately R40 million. They will then provide me with credit cover and charge me 0.6% p/month of R40 million. When any of my debtors fails to pay me, then as soon as 90 days pass, I issue a letter of demand to the debtor and also inform CGIC. If the debt is not settled by 120 days, CGIC takes over the debt and tries to get the money from the debtor through legal means, etc. They then pay me 70-75% of the debt amount.
Because CGIC is a form of insurance, they also charge an excess i.e. they will not cover the first claim up to R200 000 per annum.
Is credit guarantee (CGIC) permissible in Islam?
Q: I experience discharge daily. With regards to haiz what colour discharge would be regarded as haiz. My haiz cycle is generally 10 days. But not every day is red. Please help me understand.