Business and Dealings

Q: Is it haraam to earn an income from organo gold? It works a lot like blessings/rewards for say teaching quraan and that knowledge being passed on and you getting rewards for that from Allah. In addition to your normal profit of buying and selling, you will get a commission from the company when you bring people on to your team and tutor them and you keep working together and then they brings others and they tutor and work together, the people do not loose money to you for this tutoring and help but the company pays you a commission for this continuous advertising and tutoring you do for others and then they do for others and so on, to keep promoting their company. Is this a haraam income?

Q: I am a Muslim woman and I wanted to know that is it a gunnah to open up a beauty parlour and I will do all the jobs like plucking eyebrows of Muslim and non Muslim women and waxing and many more. I am a single parent for my child and I wanted to earn money, because of this I wanted to open a parlour.

Q: A friend of mine sells rice in his supermarket that comes pre-packed from the supplier in bags marked “10kg”. The problem is that the bags only contain 9,5kg of rice. Is it permissible for him to sell this rice? He said that it’s not his fault because the supplier made the mistake.

Q: There is a Muslim butchery that sells halaal and haraam meat. When we asked the owner about it, he said that he stocked the haraam meat to sell to non-Muslims. Is it permissible for a Muslim to sell haraam meat to non-Muslims and will it be fine for Muslims to buy the halaal meat he keeps?

Q: I went to buy something from my friend. He told me to take the item and said that he will discuss the price with me later on. What is the Shar’ee ruling regarding this sale? If this sale is incorrect, what is the way to correct it?

Q: Is the income generated from interest based schemes permissible to use for widows who have no other source of income?

Q: Is it haraam to invest money in the share market?

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1. My question is, is investing in a commercial bank shares allowed? Halaal or haraam?

2. If someone gets dividends from investment on Banks share, can he/she make Sadqaa of this amount or can spend any charity work?

3. If someone thinks before investment in bank shares if he gets profit or dividend he/she will spend all the money for Sadqaa or any charity work. Is this situation is allowable / legal Islamic point of view?

Q: I attend pharmacy school in the United States. It's my first year and as you might know I had to take out a loan because of the tuition. The tuition is extremely high so for the loan I had to take it out on a interest rate. I have taken out 2 loans so far both on interest. I am not doing well in my classes and I am on the verge of failing and getting kicked out. I have been fed up with this and I think it's because my tuition involves interest that's why. I want to leave but I do not know what I would after leaving this school and my parents don't understand; they want me stay here but inside I do not want to. What should I do? Please give me advice.

Q: Our pathology lab offered our services to a certain hospital. The hospital told our lab that many other labs also offered their services to them. They said that if we want, they will choose our lab and give us all their contracts, on condition that since they are giving us the business, our lab should pay them a stipulated fee as a token of appreciation. Is it permissible for our lab to pay the hospital this stipulated fee?