Wakeel

Q: If you are selling an item and you do not get possession of it, does the delivery truck become your wakeel? Where there's an agent however the items get sent directly to the purchaser?

Q: My relative asked me to buy a washing machine for him. The washing machine cost R5000 for example. Can I inform my relative that the machine cost R7000? He does not know that I will charge him extra.

Q: Is it permissible for one to give his merchandise to a rep to sell for him on the condition that his commission will be any profit he makes over and above the selling price?

Q: A person gave his car to a car dealer to sell for him for R100 000. The agreement they made was that he will pay the car dealer 5% commission of the profit acquired through selling the car. Is this arrangement permissible?

Q:

1. A person bought petrol stations and invites people from the community to invest in them. If I promote this investment, can I charge an administration fee?

2. Can my commission be based on the amount that people invest e.g. if I get a person to invest R100 000, I will charge R1000, and if he invests R200 000, I will charge R2000?

Q: A lady (non-Muslim) wanted to order some dress samples through me and promised to pay the amount. Although I was not interested, as it is not what I do; yet, she insisted, so I managed some how and got those samples through someone else and also paid the custom clearence from my own pocket.

The lady in question decided to stop the business due to some medical condition and when the samples arrived, she refused to take them saying that she did not like those. I still had to pay the person who arranged those, who actually tried his best to give nice pieces. It was not possible for me to return those samples neither was it possible for the person who arranged those to sell them. Somehow this lady paid me an insufficient amount to which I again added some more from my pocket and gave to the person who arranged those.

I did not know that the lady will put me in a chaotic situation where my own money and goodwill will go. So now I am trying to sell those dresses at least to get rid of them.

My question is “should I return the money to that lady in case I succeed to sell them” or I am allowed to keep it as per Islam, to recover my own cost”? Personally I feel that I should give her even if I do not sell those, so that she does not get a bad impression of Muslims. 

Q: Yusuf is going shopping. So his friend Umar asks Yusuf to buy something for him and he will pay Yusuf later. Yusuf ends up getting a big discount.

Must Umar pay him the normal price or the discounted price?

Q: If a person asks me to buy something from a certain shop for him and that shop is running a 'buy one, get one free' special, then can I take the free item or do I have to give it to the person who appointed me to purchase it for him?

Q: My company arranges business agreements between two parties. According to the business agreement, the first party pays money to our company for the second party that gives service to the first party. Our company acts as a business agent and takes commission from the money given to us as fees for the second party without telling the first party but with the permission of the second party who already worked with us.

Also, we take another fee from the first party while telling them that it is our service fee for arranging the business agreement with the second party and it is a clear dealing.

My question is about the commission that we take from the second party fees without notifying the first party (payee) is halal or not? Because this commission is the main source of income for my company. If this commission is not permissible then the salary I take from the company is halal or not? 

Q: Is it permissible for a person to be a middleman for the buyer as well as the seller? In other words, in one transaction, he receives his cut from both the buyer and the seller.