Business and Dealings

Q: I am deciding to start a new business venture. I only found out later into a partnership that my business partner is gay. What is the ruling islamically.

Q: Is it permissible to design logos or make adverts for bars, or haram restaurants or even making posters for events inciting fitnah or haram like music festivals, etc.?

Q: Is working in the IT department of a bank permissible?

Q: I read your article about eBucks being tantatmount to riba. My question is, if I have an Islamic Banking cheque acccount that earns a variable profit share and a credit card that I settle monthly in full on due date and hence pay no interest, is the ebucks earned still tantatmount to riba?

Q: I broke a glass rod in our school lab and didn't report it. The school put a common fine on my class. Is this right?

Q: My father is 68 years old now. He was working as a manager at a government bank for more than 40 years. When he was in his 20's he joined the bank because of the financial problems which his family encountered. At the bank he served plenty of positions such as cashier, assistant manager, credit controller, risk manager, etc. He quit his job at this bank 8 years ago. Now he is working at our village in Baithuz Zakath and Baithul Maal organizations. I would like to present the following points:

• He has never given money for interest (Riba) for him

• He has never borrowed for interest (Riba) for him

• All what he done was he did his job at the bank.

• During his top management career, he was very interested in Islamic banking and tried to introduce Islamic banking system in his bank (At that time, there was no bank to conduct Islamic banking services. Very Recently, his bank started Islamic banking services to its customers. They used my father’s proposals and other documents to start this service)

• He did that job as his livelihood

• Till now, he gets pension from his bank (since his bank is a fully government owned entity, all the funds are directly coming from the treasury)

• He uses his knowledge in banking to uplift the Baithuz Zakath and Baithul Maal organizations in our city. (Many other villages are impressed with his Baithuz Zakath Organization Model. They meet him and get advices and support as well)

• He is very pious. He never misses any of his prayers.

Now I am writing my questions:

1. Is that pension money which my father gets from the bank haraam?

2. If it is haraam, what are the remedies ? (The money which he gets from Baithuz Zakath is not enough for him to meet his day to day needs.

3. Was his job (Banking Job) haraam? 

Q: I am an intern student in an organization, where we work on project basis, at last out of city project we were allocated a budget of Rs.6100 per day for our personnel expenses like meals, travelling and hotels. These expenses do not affect our work efficiency. These expenses were purly for our personnel expenses. Conditions was that if the budget exceeds 6100, the extra was to be paid from our own pockets. But in this project my senior made saving by selecting a very low standarad hotel. At the end of project he handed over half the savings to me.

I could not resist because if I resist they will hold back my actual expenses that were paid from my own pocket and also the whole organisation will go against me. Because to hold these saving is considered normal in my organisation.

Now the question is, is the money Halal or Haram for me? 

Q: Allied bank is giving an ATM card in which we can deposit money from any city and can get money from anywhere with using this card from the branch of that bank and there is no charges of depositing and transactions. There is no need for any account of this. We only have to create an ATM card once from an Allied bank.

My question is that, is this permissible in shariah (deen) or not to use this ATM card? There is no extra money required for depositing and transacting.

Q: A person is employed in a company based in Australia. This company does not require them to work at the company office but allows them to work from home (it is an IT based job). Ever since they have been employed with this company they have not had to come into the office. Now, can this person continue working with this company after moving overseas without informing his employer that he is not longer physically in Australia?

Q: I want to work in an electronics company that provides products on loan (12 months installments) And they take more money than the actual prize of the product. For example a product which costs 45,000 PKR (Cash) they give it at a total amount of 54,000 PKR (in installments). Can I work there? Will my earnings will be Halal?