Interest and Gambling

Q: What do we do with interest money? Can we pay our helper at home in the form of wages? 

Q: In the past, I have earned and used eBucks for car hire and purchasing plane tickets. Recently, I read that eBucks is impermissible. What can I do to compensate for the eBucks that I used in the past? Also, how I can correctly dispose of the eBucks earned thus far as I cannot get the cash to give it away with the intention of no thawaab?

Q: My father bought an agricultural land almost 19 years ago, measuring 110 acres. My father is an advocate by profession and at the time of purchasing the land, my father had some money earned by himself and took some money in the shape of a loan from the bank and bought the land. I have heard that taking a loan is completely haraam, so is the land haraam for us? How do we make it halaal?

Q: Is it permissible to pay a fixed monthly fee for a credit facility on a credit card? The fee is payable whether or not the credit facility is used. No interest will be incurred on the credit facility.

Q: Can I take a loan on interest from a bank to pay off my friends debts in order to save him from going to jail?

Q: I have a mobile account and I subscribe to the benefits package that if I have more money in my account I will get 10% profit, please guide me is this valid or not?

Q: In India we have all transactions through our bank accounts. Is it against taqwa to deposit money in the bank? I never use interest but distribute it to the poor. 

Q:

1. Is opening a 'Shariah-compliant' savings account at a bank or at an 'Islamic' Bank with the sole intention of the bank safekeeping your money permissible if one intends to give all 'profit' earned in charity?

2. If one already has an investment account at an 'Islamic' Bank that claims to follow a Profit-and-Loss mode of financing, what should one do? Should we close down the account?

3. Is it against taqwa to save/invest money for the future?

4. What are the permissible means if one wishes to save/invest?

Q: Is it permissible to buy a life insurance policy, not so that my heirs can benefit from it; but merely to cover inheritance tax/estate duty that is so exorbitant that due to not having so much cash funds in the estate, essential assets such as the house in which the heirs live in has to be sometimes sold just to pay the estate duty? The heirs will be instructed that after paying the duty, the surplus must be given away in charity without intention of reward.

Q: If a person stays in a complex where they have an insurance policy, and every month a portion of the levies go towards that insurance, can he pay that portion with interest/doubtful money? He has already expressed his disapproval of the insurance, but since its a big complex his views are the minority.