Business and Dealings

Q: If someone deposits stolen cash into my account and later shares it with me, am I guilty or not?

Q: A website is selling books at a discounted price. Whoever buys books for more than R250 gets a free bookmark. Whoever buys books for more than R750 gets another book free. Whoever buys books for more than R1499 gets free home delivery.

I want to know if transactions like these are valid where the seller gives a gift if the buyer buys products of a certain amount of money?

Q: My boss teases me alot. Kindly tell me any masnoon method of making him kind towards me.

Q: Is the prize money earned by winning a fight in a Mixed Martial Arts competition halaal, haraam or makrooh?

Q: Is it permissible for a Muslim to run a funeral parlor as a business by selling coffins and suits, driving the body to and from wherever it needs to go, store the bodies, etc.

Q: I am a LP gas distributor. We supply retail and wholesale customers. We collect empty cylinders from the customers which are then exchanged for full cylinders. Customers only pay for the gas inside the cylinder. Sometimes customers return cylinders that still have gas inside for exchange. We are able to ask the retail customers if they want to return cylinders that still have gas inside as this is a loss to them. Most of them are fine with the loss. However, it is impossible to check with the wholesale customers as the cylinders are returned first to the wholesaler who then returns them to us. As a result we receive an average of 250-350 kg free gas per month.

1. Can we re-sell this gas that comes back from the customers?

2. If it is not permitted, what should we do regarding our past sales from this 'free' gas?

3. The retail store is run entirely by non-Muslim staff. Is it permissible for the shop to remain open during Jumuah?

Q: Can Muslim women become bureaucrats? If they observe hijab, have a separate office, and talk to men only when needed?

Q: Is gifting specifically at the time of eidul fitr part of deen?

Q: There are 3 partners in a business (2 active and 1 silent). The one active partner wishes to exit the business. The share will be paid off through the business over a period of time, not any external funds.

Will it be permissible for the 2 remaining partners to mutually agree that the share of the exiting partner will be purchased only by the active partner or is it compulsory for both partners to purchase this share equally?

Q: My father works in an office where his work is to maintain proper supply of electricity, making and maintaining electrical plants and supervising others who do the above works. Part of his job is to inform his seniors about new plans and progress of the plans. For this purpose he uses digital slides for presentations.

I noticed that the slides that he makes, he uses pictures of animate object. It could be a requirement from the office that he must use those. Sometimes others make these type of slides and he uses them. And sometimes he makes these slides and passes it to others. I want to know, does it make his income haraam?