Islam: Questions And Answers - Jurisprudence and Islamic Rulings (Part 1) Vol 22

381 Pages·2007·1.06 MB·English

ISLAM: QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Jurisprudence and
Islamic Rulings:
General and
Transactions - Part 1
Volume 22 of a Series of Islamic Books
by
Muhammad Saed Abdul-Rahman
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Islam: Questions And Answers
Volume 22
Jurisprudence and Islamic Rulings:
General and Transactions - Part 1
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Islam: Questions And Answers
Volume 22
Jurisprudence and Islamic Rulings:
General and Transactions - Part 1
Muhammad Saed Abdul-Rahman
B.Sc., DipHE
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© Muhammad Saed Abdul-Rahman, 2004
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Contents
Introduction ..............................................................................1
Chapter 1...................................................................................3
General.................................................................................3
21844: What are the qualities which a person
must attain if he wants to set himself up to issue
fatwas?........................................................................3
21271Why is the legacy mentioned first in the
aayah, “after payment of legacies that you may
have bequeathed or debts” [al-Nisa’ 4:12]? ...............4
21511: How to deal with papers on which
Allaah’s name is mentioned .......................................6
21179: Meaning of the word Pokemon......................6
22948: She is asking about the zakaah on
white gold, and about a house that is haunted
by the jinn...................................................................7
21375: Rulings on revitalizing disused land..............9
21577: Rulings on lending .......................................13
21656: Should he give water to a thirsty man
when he fears that he himself may become
thirsty in the desert? .................................................17
22140: Can a person be considered as a shaheed
if he dies whilst on a business trip by sea?...............18
10323: Rulings on seizing things wrongfully ..........19
Chapter 2.................................................................................24
Transactions.......................................................................24
General..........................................................................24
21290: Ruling on offering congratulations at
the beginning of the Hijri year .................................24
20279: Working as a sales agent ..............................25
13743: Ruling on discount cards..............................26
21980: Commission .................................................27
13262: When should orphans be given their
wealth? .....................................................................28
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14042: Prisoner giving a blood sample to the
state authorities for testing .......................................29
26344: How to take possession of lands that
do not belong to anyone ...........................................30
20769: Using the services of another bank ..............32
Chapter 3.................................................................................33
Transactions.......................................................................33
Spending on those under
one’s responsibility .......................................................33
48952: Can a woman donate any of her
money without her husband’s permission? ..............33
44995: Should she spend on her parents who
are poor without her husband’s approval? ...............37
25786: Does a son have to spend on his father
even if he is rich? .....................................................39
8916: Is a husband obliged to spend on
his wife’s Hajj?.........................................................41
21701: Benefitting from the wealth of a
father who deals in riba............................................42
21684: Wife disposing of her own money
without her husband’s knowledge............................45
10332: Is it permissible to pay off the debt
of a son who is in need when one has other
children?...................................................................46
20886: The wife is not entitled to maintenance
if she refused to go back to her husband’s house.....48
13464: What is the maximum extent of the
obligation to spend on one’s children?.....................48
22063: The reward for spending on one’s wife
and children..............................................................51
21658: Will a Muslim be rewarded for spending
on building?..............................................................56
2686: If a woman works, does she have to pay
the household expenses?..........................................58
10495: His wife demands clothes and gold like
her friends have........................................................61
10122: Her husband has left Islam; is
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she entitled to maintenance during the ‘iddah
period?......................................................................62
10552: Spending on relatives...................................63
10038: He does not work and his wife is
spending on him – is this considered to be a
debt that he owes?....................................................64
5500: What should he do when his kaafir
father asks him for money?......................................65
4838: He is in need and his brother is a
music-writer .............................................................66
3463: Do both fathers and sons have to
finance one another’s Hajj?......................................66
10608: To whom should he give preference, his
mother or his wife?...................................................67
5591: Her husband wants her to work outside
the home...................................................................68
6026: Spending on one’s relatives............................69
4282: The son has a family and his father is
exhausting him with his financial demands .............72
1836: Wife and children eating from the
husband’s haraam earnings.......................................77
215: A minor whose parents’ income is haraam.......78
Chapter 4.................................................................................80
Transactions.......................................................................80
Gifts and Presents .........................................................80
49015: Ruling on lender accepting a gift from
the borrower .............................................................80
22181: Accepting a gift with strings attached
from a non-Muslim ..................................................84
46797: Can a Muslim accept a gift from his
kaafir brother?..........................................................85
47148: Buying back a gift from someone other
than the one to whom it was given...........................86
34602: Buying back a gift from the one to
whom it was given ...................................................86
34591: Accepting gifts and donations from
haraam wealth ..........................................................87
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34640: There is nothing wrong with
accepting a gift and giving something of
similar value to the giver..........................................89
34614: Which is better, giving a gift or
giving charity?..........................................................91
34701: The obligation to treat co-wives fairly
in giving gifts ...........................................................93
39488: It is not permissible for your father
to accept what is given to him because of his
work..........................................................................94
11564: Accepting a gift from a kaafir.......................97
11585: Giver buying the gift from the person
to whom it was given ...............................................98
34658: He has been given money to help him
get married – should he accept it?............................99
34655: If I am given a gift should I give
something similar back to the giver? .....................100
6964: Accepting money from kaafirs.....................101
22762: Teacher accepting a gift from the
students...................................................................103
22754: Ruling on taking the gifts given to
bosses in companies and departments....................104
9810: Her father is asking her for some of
her dowry................................................................106
12599: Should a doctor accept the invitations
of the drug companies? ..........................................107
22169: Ruling on differentiating between
children in gift-giving.............................................108
10447: How to write a will.....................................113
9329: Ruling on father taking back a gift that
he had given to his son...........................................118
11505: He wants to open accounts to save
money for each of his children...............................119
8217: About showing preference to one child
in gift-giving...........................................................120
10646: The difference between Waqf and
Endowment/trust fund............................................121
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10830: Ruling on giving a gift to the one who
performs the nikaah (marriage ceremony) .............123
10430: Encouraging traders to give donations
by advertising their businesses...............................124
9633: Should a teacher accept gifts from
students?.................................................................124
8375: Collecting donations to give gifts to
poor families at Christmas .....................................125
9014: Good deeds on behalf of others....................127
5238: Exchange of gifts among principal and
teachers...................................................................138
5229: Students giving gifts to teachers ..................139
6357: Concealing sources of income when
receiving government assistance............................140
2320: Ruling on blood transfusion.........................141
4272: He found out that a gift was stolen
goods ......................................................................143
6148: Cash back awards for users of credit
cards .......................................................................144
958: Donating Blood to Non-Muslims...................145
239: Donating blood to Blood Bank ......................146
Chapter 5...............................................................................148
Transactions.....................................................................148
Inheritance and distribution
of the estate .................................................................148
47032: Question about wills and inheritance.........148
47057: Division of parents’ estate between
sons and daughters. ................................................151
39795: She betrayed her husband and put a
spell on him, and he turned against his family.......152
45018: Should he accept his father’s money
that was earned from haraam sources?...................156
20709: Is it permissible for him to
inherit property that was bought with a
riba-based loan? .....................................................161
34657: Withholding inheritance from a
daughter so that her husband will not take it..........162
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