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: My maid had to return me a loan of 70 thousand rupees. I made up my mind to give her 30 thousand from my zakat money. I had 15000 zakat amount with me, when I gave it to her, she asked how much is it? I said its 30,000 as by that time I totally forgot that it was 15,000 and not 30 thousand. She returned it to me without counting and said that deduct this amount 30k from your loan. Later I remembered the mistake.

Question: is 15k discharged as zakat, or 30k? Should I deduct 15k from the loan amount or 30k?

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: In some coutries, ulama say that zikr (like Lailaha illahu wahdehu la shareeka lehu... zal jadda minkal jadd) which is done after prayers with loud voice is sunnah. We have never heard our ulama or Imamas in Pakistan doing zikr after prayers with audible voice. Can you please guide what is Sunnah?

Q: I was an extraordinarily bright student with achievements of state level and 4 gold medals that I received from Chief of the Air staff but all of a sudden I began to feel frightened drowsy and having intrusive thoughts. Its been 7 years now and my sufferrings are not ending. I think a relative who I suppose was jealous of my achievements has casted a spell of some sort of magic on me. He has no child even after 10 years of marriage. What is the truth of black magic in Islam and how can we break its spell?

Q: If I find a fish already dead in the sea, will it be considered as carrion? Can I eat it?

Q: If I have three daughters, is it allowed to give 85g of gold to each of them?

Q: Is it permissible for the husband to issue a talaaq while the wife is in her menses?

Q: Is it possible to marry an ex-wife's daughter? I know a man that married a woman 13 years older and she never told him she has a daughter almost his age. They are not together any longer and he wants to propose to the daughter. Is this permissible considering he didn't know this? He didn't have intercourse with her since finding out as he was very hurt and shocked.