Trade

Q: I want to write an ebook and to publish on Amazon Kindle. When somebody buy my book I get paid. Firstly the owners of Amazon are non Muslim so can I sell my book on Amazon Kindle. Secondly when a buyer buys my book I get paid. What if the buyer money is haram and mostly buyers are non-muslim and their money is involved with riba and other haram things. So this type of money will be halaal for me? When someone read my ebook ads are shown on their device sometime but I am paid royalties of my ebook not for ads so this is permissible?

Q: If I don’t have stock in my business, can I sell the goods? For example, a client comes and purchases a load of bricks and wants it delivered to his house. He pays us for the bricks and delivery, and though we don’t have it in stock, we accept the money. We then collect the bricks from the brick manufacturer and deliver it directly to the client’s house. Is this permissible?

Q: Is it permissible for me to make dolls without heads and sell them for children to play with?

Q: I bought a batch of stock at a certain price. Thereafter, the price of the stock items went up, causing the market value to increase. Can I raise my price on these items, even though I am still selling stock from the old batch which I bought at the lower price?

Q: Telkom offers a certain internet package where you receive a free DSTV Explorer decoder. If I take the package, can I sell the decoder and keep the money?

Q: I am a car dealer. I am not involved in finance. However, I accept different forms of payment, such as cash, EFT and via a card machine. Is it permissible for me to decide the price of a vehicle depending on the customer’s form of payment? The bank charges me 3,25% (for a credit card) and 1,75% (for a debit card) of the total amount if the card machine is used. Can I add this percentage onto the original price of the vehicle? If so, does it have to be the exact amount the bank charges me or can I round off or add to the amount as I desire?

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1. I am a bookseller. Can I sell books that contain some pictures of animate objects? Most of the content of the books do not contain pictures of animate objects.

2. Can I sell paper, ink, etc. to printers knowing that they print pictures as well?

Q: Is it permissible to purchase franchise rights? If not, can I still give my store the same name as the franchise store?

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’m an architect. I design residential buildings for my clients and take design consultancy in return. Yesterday, a marketing team visited me. They were selling LED lights. A single light costs $10. They offered me a discount of 20% if I recommend the lights to my clients. They also said that if I sell the light at full price to my clients, they will transfer the remaining 20% discount into my account. If I give a 10% discount to my clients, they will transfer the remaining 10% into my account. Also, it is in my authority to give a full 20% discount to my client. Is this arrangement permissible?.