Business and Dealings

Q: Please advise on whether it's permissible to study a cannabis course and learn about cannabis. 

Also, is it permissible sell cannabis and cannabis products for medicinal use?

Q: A member of our community as an heir would like to know if it's permissible to pay off gambling debts accrued by the deceased to pay off multiple gambling debts accrued to Muslims and non Muslims. 

Notes: 

1. A member of family has come forward to assist with these debts as they too want to rid of their unwanted interest income in order to assist with paying off these debts. 

2. The deceased does have an income deriving property asset in his estate but the income is little to none and will take years to save and accumulate the funds required to pay off the gambling debts.

Q: Is it permissible for the Imaam of the Masjid or any scholar to teach hifdh/madressa in the Masjid & charge fees? 

If not, should this be moved outside the Masjid boundary or what would be the best possible solution?

Q: Two parties want to enter an agreement: Person A wants to loan money to Person B. 

The amount is marked up by 10% and the repayment is over a fixed period e.g. 4 years. 

If there is a clause in the agreement to say that if you pay by 3 years, you will get R2000 back. 

Is the rebate of the R2000 clause permissible? Is the allocation of marked up shares permissible?

Q: I have had some interest money which I gave to a paraplegic in a wheelchair at our local mosque. I didn’t tell him it was interest. I did not expect any sawaab for this. He made so much of dua for me and I kept saying آمين. 

Is his dua acceptable and is my saying آمين acceptable.

Q: It is right to sell an item higher than it's retail price which is mentioned on the product box?

Q: The secondary Muslim Girls School teachers stated that Sayyidatuna Khadijah (radhiyallahu anha) was a trader/businesswoman and therefore it's allowed for women to go out to earn a livelihood. 

I'll appreciate if respected Mufti Saheb could explain this matter.

Q: Person A runs a business for person B. There are some customers who buy on credit. Person A gets a straight monthly salary only. 2 customers haven't paid for 4 months now, so person A was asked to leave, and person A had to pay person B, the owner, the value not paid by the 2 customers. 

Is this correct? Please explain

Q: I would like to know what is the ruling with regards to the following situation:

I have a flat which I let out. My tenant decided to move to another premises and gave me notice on the first of December for end of December. He paid rental for December already. 

I clearly told him that kindly return my flat to me in the same condition which I gave it to you. 

He said that we must do the repairs etc. and deduct it off the holding deposit which we have of his. We informed him that we are unable to repair the flat , because it is December and no one is around to work or supervise! 

The tenant moved out of the flat during December, however left one of his cars parked at the premises and also some goods of his still in the flat as well as he’s ac. He didn’t handover the keys to myself, however he did give one key to the caretaker. 

Fast forward to second of January, I’ve contacted him to remove he’s items and car And because of his items being in the flat and also being December and him not handing over the full set of keys to me, I was unable to repair and let out the flat to someone else. 

Should the tenant be liable to pay rent for January? As he only removed the balance of his items and handed over the keys to me in January and after I called him. And we are only able to do repairs to the flat now and let out for for February

Q: A person sells balloons with a ‘Happy Birthday’ sticker on it. This is their only form of income. Is it permissible to sell this type of item?.