Islam: Questions And Answers - Jurisprudence and Islamic Rulings: Transactions - Part 7

305 Pages·2007·2.17 MB·English

by  Muhammad

ISLAM: QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Jurisprudence and
Islamic Rulings:
Transactions - Part 7
Volume 28 of a Series of Islamic Books
by
Muhammad Saed Abdul-Rahman
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Islam: Questions And Answers
Volume 28
Jurisprudence and Islamic Rulings:
Transactions - Part 7
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Islam: Questions And Answers
Volume 28
Jurisprudence and Islamic Rulings:
Transactions - Part 7
Muhammad Saed Abdul-Rahman
B.Sc., DipHE
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© Muhammad Saed Abdul-Rahman, 2004
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Contents
Introduction ..............................................................................3
Chapter 1...................................................................................3
Transactions........................................................... 3
Employment for a Salary: General..................................3
22870: Is rent received from a bank halaal? ..............3
36650: Ruling on hosting a website which
includes songs in some of its sections........................6
45271: Is it permissible to rent a café that offers
“hubble-bubble pipes” in order to sell food? .............8
14304: Ruling on rent-to-own schemes ...................11
45653: What should he do with a tenant who
does not want to leave the house?............................13
34590: If a person is hired to do a job, it
is permissible for him to hire someone else to
do it...........................................................................19
26201: It is better for workers to hasten to
pray when they hear the adhaan ...............................22
39508: Appointing an agent to make a
purchase, and the agent benefitting from
the product bought....................................................23
20421: Is it permissible to rent from kaafirs? ..........25
21688: Should he work for a company whose
boss is a kaafir?........................................................27
26801: Ruling on go-betweens.................................28
31242: Is it permissible to employ a
non-Muslim servant?................................................30
26267: Asking permission to leave work
after completing what is required.............................32
12397: Retirement lump sum for a bank
employee ..................................................................33
12332: Teacher tutoring students outside
of school (private lessons)........................................34
12627: Taking payment for reciting Qur’aan
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over a sick person.....................................................35
Chapter 2.................................................................................37
Transactions......................................................... 37
Employment for a Salary:
Prohibited Jobs..............................................................37
42950: Ruling on teaching man-made laws.............37
42579: Fatwa from the Standing Committee
on the “Business and “Hibbat al-Jazeerah”
companies and pyramid marketing schemes............38
41105: Ruling on working in a company
that promotes satellite channels ...............................42
40651: Is it permissible to sell haraam things
like pork to non-Muslims?.......................................46
26964: Prohibition against spying on others............52
40472: Ruling on fixing TVs and VCRs..................58
44922: Editing a book containing pictures...............60
49829: Ruling on working for a company
that maintains the Central Bank building.................62
50074: Is it permissible for him to sell gifts
that have to do with kaafir festivals?........................64
36524: He cannot find any work except
renovating churches..................................................66
31781: Working for a company that cheats,
and the ruling on working in a company in
which some things are permissible and some
are haraam ................................................................69
34597: Ruling on repairing machines that
are usually used for haraam purposes.......................73
34672: Opening an internet café in which
there is no supervision of users................................74
38877: He wants to work in a company that
produces programs for riba-based banks..................77
33645: Ruling on a man working in a
hairdressing salon for women ..................................78
6418: He falsified information on his
university certificate and got hired on the
basis of that certificate .............................................80
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26788: Woman working in a home for the elderly...81
21113: Working in a riba-based bank
without directly dealing with riba and
depositing money in such a bank .............................83
14102: Working in an alcohol factory......................85
11349: He has been offered a job in a bank
that deals in riba (interest)........................................87
8196: Taking payment for shaving beards
is haraam ..................................................................88
10398: A taxi driver takes some people to
haraam places...........................................................90
11789: Should he fix a computer in which
there are naked pictures?..........................................91
11517: Making a program which will be
used for halaal and haraam.......................................92
7489: He has been an attractive job offer in
the field of developing new kinds of pig meat.........93
7432: Ruling on growing tobacco............................95
3149: He works in a factory that makes tight
and short clothes for women ....................................96
681: Working in restaurants where wine is
served .......................................................................96
8797: Working in the army of a country in
which there are munkaraat (haraam deeds)..............98
3659: Travelling to the land of the kuffaar
to seek knowledge, and helping the kuffaar
to make software ....................................................100
5237: Working in an institute teaching
interest-based financial courses..............................101
5334: Ruling on working as an accountant
in a company calculating the amount of riba,
and he may not be able to find any other work ......103
5008: Working on programs which do the
accounts for a company and include riba...............104
3481: Salary for work obtained through false
certification ............................................................105
3478: Muslim working as a doctor in the
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kaafir army .............................................................108
3243: Earnings of one who makes images.............110
4029: Work that involves protecting programs
containing objectionable material ..........................111
3609: Taxi driver taking passengers to
forbidden places .....................................................113
1190: Ruling on shaving another man’s beard.......114
2834: Working as a systems engineer in a
riba-based bank ......................................................115
2216: Should he give up the idea of
specializing in Pharmacy for fear of selling
haraam products in the future?...............................115
866: Working in a riba-based (interest-based)
bank........................................................................117
1883: Working in a store which sells pork
pizza .......................................................................118
1073: Developing Computer Programs for
Banks based on Interest..........................................119
1052: Muslim working in law enforcement
in a non-Islamic country.........................................120
782: Selling greeting cards for Christian
holidays ..................................................................121
164: Not permissible to sell alcohol to
non-Muslims ..........................................................123
Chapter 3...............................................................................125
Transactions....................................................... 125
Employment for a Salary:
Women’s Work............................................................125
39799: He owns an café in which men
and women mix......................................................125
12465: Does she have to obey her husband
if he tells her to work outside the home? ...............129
45905: Is it permissible for a father to force
his daughter to work in a mixed environment?......133
20869: Ruling on female servants working in
households, and are they female slaves?!...............134
33710: She wants to work and her fiance
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says no....................................................................137
21062: It is not permissible for a woman to
be appointed as a judge ..........................................141
20677: Is it permissible in Islamic sharee’ah
for a woman to be a ruler?......................................143
Question:
................................................................................143
22397: She wants to work but her husband
refuses ....................................................................149
20004: Which is better, seeking knowledge
or taking care of the house? ...................................152
20140: Woman working as a secretary for
men in an office......................................................153
11146: Ruling on a woman working as an
advertising rep........................................................154
9605: Women working in the security services......156
6666: Should she continue working in place
where she mixes with men? ...................................158
5228: Ruling on women taking part in
elections..................................................................161
3285: Ruling on appointing women to
positions of high public office................................164
286: Ruling on Muslim women working as
nurses and doctors..................................................168
Chapter 4...............................................................................172
Transactions....................................................... 172
Employment for a Salary:
Ruling on jobs.............................................................172
42521: Working as a lawyer in a country
that is ruled by something other than that
which Allaah has revealed......................................172
42523: Working as a lawyer in the Islamic
judicial system........................................................173
12600: Being paid a salary by a company
even though one does not work for them...............174
20100: It is permissible to accept payment
for teaching Qur’aan ..............................................176
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