Business and Dealings

Q: Is it allowed to let out premises to non muslim funeral company?

Q: I have a truck, and a food company asked me to deliver goods for them from a warehouse to their different retail outlets. Some food items may not be halaal. Is it permissible for me to deliver their goods for them?

Q: Can a traffic fine be paid with part of my money and the excess with interest?

Q: I am a dentist. I did a consult for a patient and arranged specialist referral. I did not charge him for the consult. He was referred back for treatment which I carried out at half price. Thereafter, he asked for a few days to arrange the money. A week later, he then gave me a gift of honey. The day after he gave me the honey, he paid his account in full. Is the gift of honey riba, as at that time, he owed me money?

Q: 

1. Zaid goes to a farm and chooses an animal for his qurbaani. This animal is marked and reserved for Zaid. Zaid pays for this animal. The animal dies of natural causes before Eid. Who sustains the loss? Zaid or the farmer? Is the farmer obliged to replace Zaid? If the farmer out of his good nature replaces Zaid, should he first inform him of the death of his animal?

2. Zaid selects and marks an animal. The farmer notices that the animal is sick and may succumb. Can he use his discretion and slaughter the animal and replace Zaid with a similar animal? Or is he required to first get permission from Zaid? I.e. to slaughter the animal and to replace it.

3. Zaid selects and marks an animal. After a few days the farmer notices a defect on the animal which disqualifies its permissibility to slaughter for qurbaani. E.g. the animal is blind. No one is sure as to when this defect came about. I.e. prior to Zaid’s choosing the animal or not.

   • Is the farmer obliged to replace Zaid?

   • What should Zaid do with this animal now that he is the owner of a defective animal? Can he slaughter it without the intention of qurbaani and consume the meat? Or is he required to distribute the meat to the poor?

   • Must Zaid purchase another animal if he is financially able to do so?

4. On the days of Eid Zaid accidently slaughtered an animal which was reserved for Bakar. Bakar had marked and paid for it. Does Zaid have to pay Bakar in cash or should he replace Bakar with another animal? Who’s qurbaani is discharged, Zaid’s or Bakar’s?

5. A farmer is requested to perform the qurbaani on behalf of many people. They do not come to the farm and slaughter the animals themselves. It often occurs that two or three people’s qurbaani is accidently missed out.

   • What must the farmer now do? Should he slaughter the animal after the days of qurbaani and distribute the meat or should the person who appointed him do that?

   • If the farmer does not inform the person who appointed him of his mistake rather he slaughters the animal and distributes its meat to the poor. He then slaughters another animal as a recompense to the one who appointed him and gives this animal to him without informing him that this is not his qurbaani animal. This person is under the impression that this is his qurbaani animal. Is such a practice correct?

   • Can the farmer slaughter a few extra animals with a general niyyat of qurbaani that this may suffice for those he possibly may miss out?

Q: 

1. Can one advertise on Television?
2. Can one sell Televisions?

Q: I am a software developer and i work for a pakistani software house. This software house is a partner of an american software house. My company primary business is to make softwares related to business, school and law for the western countries. The software on which i am working on is the ERP(Enterprise resource planning). ERP is the system which automates the whole accounting in the business process. For more details see the link below 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enterprise_resource_planning

This ERP has one part in which it provides functionality of collecting interest. Companies which want to use this feature can separately pay for this feature and companies can also turn off this functionality. Now as a software developer, if i am assigned a task of enhancing interest functionality, which is to write code to add functionality. Will this be halal for me? When i joined the company, i was not informed and i was not even aware that ERP can also have interest functionality. i have also did not signed any contract that i would not do it. Now in this situation what should i do? If i work for this feature, will my salary be halal for me? If it is haram and if i have already worked on this functionality, what should i do with my salary that i earned while working on this feature?

Q: Is it permissible to sell artificial hair?

Q: What can a Muslim do with interest money, can he give a Muslim?

Q: I’m working in gulf, my cousin brother asked me to bring shaving machine from gulf, could you please confirm is it permissible for me to give gift this one to my cousin brother.