Business and Dealings

Q: To encourage consumers to fill out a survey, we offered entry into a cash prize draw as an incentive if you complete the survey. 5 respondents will each win a certain amount of money. After capturing the respondents details, my systems crashed and I lost all the data, I tried everything I could and there is no way of retrieving that data. What do I do ? I have no way of knowing who completed the survey, so how do I choose five winners. Is this form of incentive permissible?

Q: If clothes were stolen from a store and now someone wants to repent from this, how does one pay back the store?
If the owner was not known at that time and don't know if the owner is still there, then what action does one take?

Q: In the place where I live, majority of the time when I posted parcels in and around the country without insuring it, the parcel hadn't reached. However everytime I insured the parcel it reached. Is the insuring permissible in this case.

Q: Is it necessary to stipulate a termination date in an employment contract? 

Q: I would like to know if it is permissible to have a type of funeral cover, in the area I live there is a type of funeral cover that you can join at the Mosque near to you. E.g. You pay an amount of R20.00 every month so in the case you pass away then your hole at the graveyard will be paid for & any other like transporting you to graveyard, etc. But what if you pass away after 6 months & the amount you paid them is not even half the costs of your burial, etc. & if you were paying for long time already now & you are still alive then you would have paid much more then what it would actually cost to do your janaazah. Please give a detail explanation if it is permissible in Islam to have something like this & why?

Q: There are many muslims turning to shariah compliant banks.

1. What is your view on using these kind of banks for buying or building a house? Would I be allowed to buy a house for my family using this service?
2. I have some money that I would like to invest in using their investment fund. Will this be permissible? They call the percentage they put in profit not interest. I want to make sure.

Q: Is there barakah in a woman's earnings?

Q: Someone gifted me set of wine glasses (tumblers), how should I dispose of it? Could it be given to a kaafir or not?

Q: I have a business where I sell shoes. Yesterday, I found out that the inner lining of some of the shoes which I am selling is made from pigskin. Is it permissible for me to sell these shoes?

Q: I applied for university job. I want to be selected therefore kindly give me a wazifa to do my job in university.