Trade

Q: I am working as a pharmacist in a big hospital. Our market is a generic market where the doctor prescribes the chemical name on the prescription rather than the brand name. The brand is selected by the pharmacist. The same medicine will be sold by different pharmaceutical companies under different brand names but will have the same chemical name. Example, the chemical paracetamol is in brand names like adol, calpol, panadol, tylenol, etc.

My question is that representatives from the pharmaceutical companies come to us and tell us that if we sell their company brand, they will give us some vouchers or a gift. Is taking this gift or voucher from the reps of the pharmaceutical companies allowed in Islam?

Q: I am working as a business sgent in UAE. As per law of UAE, any non-national investor must do a business agreement with a UAE nationality holder to set up any personal business in the UAE. For this business agreement, the UAE nationality holder charges an amount to the non-national investor and that amount is known as the sponsorship fee. As a business consultant, I settle the business agreement between the foreign investor and UAE national. For doing this service, the UAE nationality holder gives me a commission from his sponsor fee. Please advise me if this commission is halal or haram according to the ruling of Islam.

Q: I want to create a learming app in urdu. It will have takhtees with the voice of my nephew and exercises for learning urdu and no pictures of living things. Is it permissible to create and sell such an app?

Q: A supplier sold fabric to a customer and delivered it to him. The fabric has not been paid for by the customer and it is highly unlikely that the customer is in a position to pay due to his severe financial debts. Do the goods belong to the supplier or customer?

Q: I like to buy a persian cat and use it as a pet. In future if it may give birth to babies, can I sell the cat for money?

Q: I want to open a business with boating, roller coaster rides, and other similar facilities. Can I provide such entertainment to people for a fee?

Q: I have a shop in which I sell different types of toys. Some of these toys are action figures e.g. a famous wrestler, soccer player, movie character, etc. Is this permissible in Islam?

Q: I am in the business of buying and selling car mags. A few months back, I sold a set of rims to someone for R1800. A couple of months later, I got a call from the same person asking if I want to buy these same rims back because he had no use for them. I made him an offer of R1200 and purchased them back. Is this considered as riba or is it permissible?

Q: I would like to know the ruling regarding a person who contacts the seller of a property knowing well that someone else is busy negotiating to buy the property. Is it permissible for the second person to approach the seller to offer him more to secure the deal?

Q: Is it permissible to sell firecrackers during Christian holidays and offer freebies to attract customers to come in the store. The money from the firecrackers will be kept separate. Can you sellitems that are not legal to sell and can get fined for if you ger caught? After doing the above, can you still praise Alllah for makeing your business so successful and giving you so much barakah in the rozi and even if you are paying taxes. Please clarify.