Business and Dealings

Q: I wanted to know if its permissible to rent an apartment and sub rent the same apartment to third party.

Q: I lent some money to my cousin a few months ago. If he takes an interest based loan from the bank to return my money. Am I allowed to take my money back from such arrangements. I did not ask or force him to take a loan/Riba to return my money. Just asking him to return my money back as the agreement date is nearing.

Q: Is it acceptable to engage in sports betting?

Sports betting involves wagering money on predictions of sports outcomes, such as a player's performance or a team's victory. If the prediction is correct, the better's money can potentially be doubled or tripled. In essence, sports betting revolves around forecasting sports results and staking money on those predictions.

Q: Zaid and John entered into a muzaara'ah partnership. Zaid will provide the land and seeds and John will do the planting, etc.

They have agreed that they both will have 50% ownership in the crop. They also agreed that John will then handle the sale of the crop, and they will then divide what is earned between them 50% each.

Is this partnership valid? Can John be made a wakeel to purchase seedlings as well? If the above partnership was incorrect, how should it be redone, as there are already seeds planted.

Please advise.

Q: Can I sell leather products like jackets, belts, shoes, bags and handbags for Muslim men and non Muslim men?

Q: If a debtor takes an interest based loan to return our due money. Are we allowed to take our money back from such an arrangement.

We are not asking/ forcing them to take the loan to return our money but just demanding our money as the term due is nearing.

Q: I work for company called NEXT who’s CEO has political support for Israel.

Also the company provides a credit card for the customers which has interest in it as well. As I work as a sales girl I have to be on the counter/till while on the till sometimes I have to take the credit cards from the customers as their means of payment.

Can you please tell me if my earning is halaal?

Q: A person's estate may be liable to pay more than 10 million in estate duty.

In order to avoid this, is it permissible to have an insurance policy that will, upon his death, pay out only whatever the estate duty amount is? No money from this will be received by the heirs.

Q: I have a brother and a sister. My brother has taken a loan from a bank and has to pay back the loan with interest. My sister wants to open a fixed deposit with the intention of giving the interest earned on the fixed deposit to my brother so he can pay off his own loan. Can she do it, even when my brother has enough income to pay off the loan himself?

Q: I currently live in Pretoria and work in Jet Park (I travel about 128km a day to and from work). Currently I use my car everyday to work and back. I have previously looked at the Gautrain as an alternative, however it worked out a little too expensive for me.

Recently, my small brother informed me that he receives a discount on his Gautrain trips (as he is a student) but doesn't use this discount as his campus isn't so far and it's easier for him to drive. As he isn't using this discount- He had offered it to me to use his discount to travel to work.

My question - Would it be permissible to use his discount for my benefit (considering he is a student and I am not)?