Accepting prize money from a Mixed Martial Arts competition
Q: Is the prize money earned by winning a fight in a Mixed Martial Arts competition halaal, haraam or makrooh?
Business and Dealings
Muslim running a funeral parlour
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.
Customers returning gas cylinders with some gas inside to a gas distributor
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?
Muslim women becoming bureaucrats
Q: Can Muslim women become bureaucrats? If they observe hijab, have a separate office, and talk to men only when needed?
Gifting on Eidul Fitr
Q: Is gifting specifically at the time of eidul fitr part of deen?
Partners purchasing the share of a partner
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?
Income of a person who uses pictures of animate objects in his presentations
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?
The Concept of Limited Liability
Q: Is the limited liability clause, which is found in all listed companies, permissible in Shari’ah? Without including this clause, a company cannot be legally registered as a listed company and this will pose restrictions on Muslims in the business world. If it is not permissible for Muslims to open listed companies on account of this clause, will it be permissible for Muslims to invest in these listed companies as they all have the limited liability clause?
Using an item purchased through an invalid transaction
Q: Since there are lots of rules of a valid transaction (I have read in Behishti Zewar), if a person purchases something with an invalid transaction, will that thing be haraam for him to use or eat?
Returning an amaanat to the estate of the deceased
Q: If a person left some money as amaanat with someone, and thereafter the owner of the amaanat passed away, who will be the owner of the amaanat money and what should be done with it?