Q: Our company will be taking the staff on a Team Building event for a few days. They have requested me to join as well. Meals and accommodation will be provided by the company. As this will be a social event involving joint group activities and tasks with both male and female staff members, is it permissible for me as a male to accompany them?
Q: A person purchased a house 2 years ago from an estate agent. While renovating it, now he came upon a hidden safe containing some gold coins. Is he entitled to it or not?
Q: Will it be permissible to take home the coffee, sugar, toothbrush etc. that the hotels provide for you to use?
Q: I had learnt in madrasah that among the conditions for the permissibility of a salam transaction is that the period of time from the date of the sale until the date of delivery should be a minimum of one month. If the salam period is less than one month, then the transaction will not be permissible and will not be valid.
However, I was recently informed that there is another opinion in the Hanafi Mazhab, that even if the the period of time from the date of the sale until the date of delivery is less than one month, the salam transaction will be permissible provided that there is an urf of that nature in the place where one is staying. Is this the correct view in the Hanafi Mazhab?
Q: Is the following permitted:
1. Charging power bank from hotel socket so one will save some electricity from one's own house
2. Ironing multiple clothes not to be worn during hotel stay but saving house electricity
3. Taking back home all the hotel amenities given for drinking like tea, shower products, etc.
4. Taking leftover items to one's room from the buffet
Q: Is it permissible for a merchant to offer the Payflex payment option to their clients? Similarly, is it permissible for one to use the Payflex payment option when purchasing from a store which offers the Payflex payment option?
Below are the details regarding how the Payflex payment option operates:
A customer wishes to purchase an item costing R2000 from an online store. Instead of paying for the item in full immediately, he has the choice of using Payflex when concluding his purchase.
Payflex allows the customer to split the cost of the purchase into 4 equal, interest-free and fee-free payments. When checking out, the customer completes a quick form and is instantly vetted. Upon Payflex approving the customer’s credit rating, Payflex will immediately pay the merchant in full for the sale at the time when the customer buys the item from the merchant.
The customer will pay Payflex the first 25% of their purchase (R500) at the time of the purchase. Payflex will then collect the other 75% of the amount in three instalments of R500 each over the next six weeks.
Payflex charges the merchant a fixed fee for processing the transaction between the customer and the merchant. Is this transaction permissible in Shariah?
Q: Exorbitant prices are being charged for water and electricity. Many times we are overcharged due to power surges and air flow through the water meter causing the meters to reflect higher than the actual usage. There are ways of slowing down the meter causing it to reflect less than the actual usage. Will it be permissible to adopt such methods?
Q: I would like for a detailed explanation to hand to my manager.
I started working for a company and they asked me the other day if I could help set up for a meeting. I said sure but I’m not touching the food as it was meat etc. bought from woolies which is haraam. They said okay that’s fine but I said I would put the fruit in the bowl because I’m allowed to eat that and it’s not haraam.
After the meeting was over I was called in by my manager and she said that it’s my job to do it so isn’t there another way, but I don’t want to touch this haraam food because I never have and I don’t want to compromise my religion.
Also an important thing to note is that there are two Muslim ladies at the work and they do not wear hijab, they allow the men to touch and hug them and they touch this haraam meat and just wash their hands after but I do not do this and don’t want to do it. So I think they probably think I’m being a snob and trying to get out of doing my job but that is not the case.
Please can you give me a detailed explanation so that I can provide them with the proper reasonings so I don’t ever have to touch the haraam meat even with the gloves.
Q: Is it permissible for a Muslim business owner to give his staff Christmas/new year bonuses?
Q: A deposit of R4800 was given when a one year lease was signed. About three months after that, the lock on the sliding door was broken on a Saturday night, a locksmith was called and a quotation was given of R3070 to replace the lock because the locksmith did not have the correct lock with him, he only opened the broken lock, I was told only the next morning what happened, I suggested that a separate lock must be used on the front gate to secure the place and R3070 is much to spend on the replacing the broken lock. Now after 6 months the tenant decides to move out, from the R4800 deposit, R2800 was for commission for getting a new tenant, (this was in the lease agreement). I informed the tenant I will replace the broken lock. The total cost of it was R1000. The tenant was willing to pay the R3070 initially, must I reimburse the tenant the R1000 or must I claim the R2070 from them.