Q: About three years ago, I sent my phone for repairs. When I went to fetch it, they told me that they could not repair it, so I did not pay them. However, when I tried the phone, it worked. Do I now need to pay them?
Q: Our pathology lab offered our services to a certain hospital. The hospital told our lab that many other labs also offered their services to them. They said that if we want, they will choose our lab and give us all their contracts, on condition that since they are giving us the business, our lab should pay them a stipulated fee as a token of appreciation. Is it permissible for our lab to pay the hospital this stipulated fee?
Q: I have a flat/shop which I want to give on rent.
a) If I take a heavy refundable deposit and no monthly rent
b) If I take a Heavy refundable deposit and nominal monthly rent
c) If I take 50 % refundable deposit and %50 monthly rent
Is it Halaal and as per Sharia
Q: Recently, I started a farming business and alhamdulillah I have bought a few animals. One week ago, I bought a male buffalo for breeding, but someone told me that I can’t earn an income from the buffalo mating. Is it correct that I cannot hire out my buffalo to mate with other people’s buffalos? Can you also tell me how I should look after my animals in an Islamic manner?
Q: I would like to know if I can rent out my outhouse/granny flat to a Hindu lady? It is directly behind my house and very close. Of course she will probably have her god statue and TV etc.
Q: We have two tenants in our attic and they both use the same kitchen as us to cook their pork. What would be the ideal thing for us to do?
Q: We have signed a contract with a client and gave our development team on his parol whose nature of business is News Media. They have to develop a website where they put all news and articles and different type of stories and put different type of pictures like sports, politics, their religious activities, astrology etc. Whole team is working for his projects and he give us administration fee because currently his team is working from our office. He also gives us commission because we give him our whole team we are not involed in any activities so is it permissible to sign such a contract and what about our income it will be lawful for us?
Q: We are selling dedicated servers to customer in the U.S. They purchase this service from us and than use it for their business, etc. We do not know what they will use this service for. They use the server for marketing etc. We do not sell such a service to the person who is going use it unlawfully and in a wrong way but when we can not recognise where they will use this service, than what can we do? Can we provide them hosting service? Is it permissible to for us deal with them? This server and hosting service can be use in both ways permissible and impermissible ways. It depend on customers usage. Please advise us.
Q: Is it permissible to read Salaatul Asr after five at work and make the staff wait for you whilst you are reading Salaah?
Q: If I own a property, will the income from the following tenants be halaal or haraam:
1) A video store
2) A church which hires out my premises for church services
3) A cash loans store which loans money to people on interest
4) A supermarket which also sells alcohol