Q: We have a bookshop selling Urdu and international novels. As you know there is romance in every novel. I want to know whether it is permissible to sell novels or not in Islam. Kindly reply in accordance with Qur'an and Ahaadith or some early scholars.
Q: I would like to know if its permissible to sell computer based training (e.g. video training for microsoft word etc). It is not software, but videos that teach an individual how to work with that software. However it may have copyrights by an international company. It is not sold in south africa because it is very very expensive eg. R3000 and as you know education is expensive here. My main aim is to sell it to those who can't afford training and to help overcome south africas skills problem by educating people. The price I'll be selling will be close to nothing eg R80. The profit is for my time taken. I would like to know if this is permissible even if I do it without the companies permission. I obtained the material for free. All I'm doing is making copies and distributing it.
Q: I was just wondering, is it true you can not sell cats or kittens?
Q: Most of my cosmetics contain cetyl alcohol. Cetyl alcohol is used in the cosmetic industry as an opacifier in shampoos, or as an emollient, emulsifier or thickening agent in the manufacture of skin creams and lotions. It is also employed as a lubricant for nuts and bolts. Is it permissible to sell items with this ingredient?
Q: Is it permissible for a Muslim to manufacture and sell coffins?
Q: Is it permissible for a pharmacy to sell the following products:
1. Items containing gelatin from animals that were not slaughtered according to Shari’ah?
2. Items containing alcohol which have a non-alcoholic equivalent.
3. Also, will the money earned from such sales be haraam?
Q:
To adopt a cat from them, based on the information provided on their website, it outwardly appears that no fee goes towards purchasing the actual animal itself.
Rather, R100 is allocated to a 'Pre-Home Inspection' where an "inspection of your property will be done to ensure that animals are placed in homes suited to their needs." Then, based on the suitability of your home, a further adoption fee is charged for a "health check, sterilization, first set of innoculations, micro chip, collar and ID disk.
Cats: R405
Kittens: R405 (plus R300 refundable deposit)
Q: At our store we stock a large variety of products including shoe makers products. Recently we have been getting a customer coming regularly to buy shoe glue only. The staff have brought it to our attention that he is buying it to sniff. After this I have observed the following:
So it is clear that he is sniffing the glue and not using it for shoes. Is it permissible to continue serving him knowing that he is using the glue for sniffing?
NB: Our store does NOT run on a self help system so he has to ask for the glue to be given to him which makes it very easy for us to stop supplying him if necessary.
Q: Is it permissable to sell Hooka tabacco?
Q: My husband has a bussiness of packaging machineries. They have various kinds of packaging machineries. Recently they had a deal with the tobacco industry who produces tambakoo (which contains nicotine), he has sold a machinery which is for multipurpose to a tobacco industry. I want to know if this halal or not?