Q: Someone has given some money to me as gift for my personal usage. The person is a Hindu... I wanted to know if that money can be used for religious purposes of the following
1. Perform umrah or Hajj
2. Give sadqa
3. Help the poor for the purpose of sawab
4. For any other religious affairs.
Q: I was given money for five years investment by one of my friends but there was no written agreement. It was only verbally discussed. Now my friend passed away and he is unmarried. His family are all well off and they don't even know about this matter. I can't pay before five years but I can pay this amount in monthly installments. Can you guide me on what should I do?
Q: Is it permissible to do print work for alcohol companies?
Q: I would like to ask that in armed forces screening or any other such sort of job where they need to screen you thoroughly, there is a medical stage screening where they fully uncover the applicant and the senior doctor checks him for any ailments or shortcomings that might deem him unfit. The question arise that doing such sort of uncovering of full body to a medical doctor will be permissible in shariat or not. If it is not permissible then who is sinful. Both?
Q: A person has rented a new car on long term, three years. After three years the value of the car is evaluated. If you want you can buy the car. Is this type of transaction permissible?
Q: I have been doing a self-employed delivery job with amazon known as Flex; Amazon flex has 3 types of delivery:
1. Logistics – normal cardboard boxes but I will never know the contents (but no food and drink items from my knowledge)
2. Prime now - which allows for many items which included electronics etc, foods, all types of drinks including alcohol in paper bags. So I am able to tell sometimes what is in the bag.
3. Morrisons shopping - anything Morrisons sells (morrisons is a massive supermarket like Asda or Target).
The way it works for Amazon flex, you will never know what route and items you are delivering until around 10 minutes into the booked shift. There is no management for point of contact to say that you do not wish to deliver alcohol, ‘you get what you’re given’. For the second and third types of delivery, there is always a chance of delivering alcohol but you will never know until its given to you.
So my question is my earnings halal? or just to leave completely due to always having doubt?
Also this is not my main income anymore, I have a 9 to 5 and I do this after my main job as I am trying to get married and I have just left university.
Q: I began a home education course last year around April when I was 17. In turn the government paid us benefits. However I slacked from April last year and only began taking the course seriously this year in early Jan. I had already made the intention to save up money to pay back the amount I unlawfully received from last year April to this year Jan.
The problem is, recently we received information that we shouldn’t have been receiving the money at all because the course wasn’t qualified. However we were told we didn’t have to pay back the amount they gave us due to bad inquiry on their side. They don’t know that I wasn’t doing the course last year though, even though they were giving us money for it. Now that I know that the money they gave us for that course shouldn’t have been given to us anyway, but they don’t expect us to pay it back, should I forget collecting and paying back the money I unlawfully received last yr?
I asked another scholar and they told me that if I fear I could face severe repercussions if I told the establishment that I didn’t utilise the money correctly, then I don’t have to tell them and I just have to do Istighfar. I’m not sure if the repercussions would be severe - maybe they’ll fine me, but I’m not truly sure or maybe legal action might be taken. But truly I don’t know and I don’t want to find out. Can I just leave it?
Q:
1. Is buying a land which is not identifiable like people buy for example 500 yards in a housing scheme but the plot purchased is not yet demarcated, permissible?
2. If one has such a land, is selling it and using that money to buy another land which is well identifieable permissible? (I mean using the money obtained by selling the land which was not identifiable permissible or not?
3. Buying a flat in installments in a building which is under construction, and hence the apartment one bought is not physically there when the agreement to purchase was signed. He then started to pay the installments, and his flat was, in the meanwhile constructed and he continued to pay. Is buying such a property which was not physically present permissible? Can one sell it once it is completed and he clears all the installments? Would the money obtained by selling it be halal?
Q: If I have three daughters, is it allowed to give 85g of gold to each of them?
Q: I give $5000 to a person in pakistan for investment. He told me that he will give me monthly $300/month on the top of that money. The condition is that the amount on top of $5000 can be $300 or more or less depending upon the business sales.
The second condition is that the owner told me that I can't give you guarantee for $5000 as incase if theres a loss then he will not be responsible for the loss.
My question is, is the $300/monthly return on the $5000 halal or haram?