Islam: Questions And Answers - Jurisprudence and Islamic Rulings: Transactions - Part 8

293 Pages·2007·2.09 MB·English

by  Muhammad

ISLAM: QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Jurisprudence and
Islamic Rulings:
Transactions - Part 8
Volume 29 of a Series of Islamic Books
by
Muhammad Saed Abdul-Rahman
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Islam: Questions And Answers
Volume 29
Jurisprudence and Islamic Rulings:
Transactions - Part 8
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Islam: Questions And Answers
Volume 29
Jurisprudence and Islamic Rulings:
Transactions - Part 8
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
Transactions........................................................... 3
Employment for a Salary:
General............................................................................3
49677: Where should he deposit his money
in these times when riba is so widespread?................3
45018: Should he accept his father’s money
that was earned from haraam sources?.......................5
45670: He used to take money without his
parents’ knowledge; what should he do now?..........10
45016: He stole from his father and brother,
and now regrets it.....................................................11
34591: Accepting gifts and donations from
haraam wealth ..........................................................13
40234: He told the students to pay money
towards classroom renovations and he gives
them grades accordingly...........................................15
40245: He is trying to get out of paying back
to the property bank on the grounds that he
has a right in the bayt al-maal ..................................16
40468: Is it permissible for him to take the
money left over by the students after a
trip because he was not paid anything for
supervising?..............................................................19
46645: He is not going to be transferred, so
should he take the relocation costs?.........................20
34551: He died and left behind wealth on
which he did not pay zakaah, and interest................22
40649: Do not betray the one who betrays you........25
42567: Ruling on participating in pension plans......29
40019: He pilfered some money and does not
know how much, and he cannot repay it. What
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should he do? ...........................................................30
40157: He is afraid that if he returns money
that he stole before he was guided, he will
be found out. What should he do?............................32
36788: Invitation to a dinner given by a
riba-based bank ........................................................33
43100: He took some money unlawfully.
How should he repent?.............................................34
39488: It is not permissible for your father
to accept what is given to him because of
his work....................................................................35
20695: What should be done with interest?.............38
20952: Can he accept money that comes
from the lottery company? .......................................39
33695: What should a person who accumulated
his wealth from haraam sources do?........................40
33852: Ruling on money earned from haraam
sources......................................................................41
13710: Cheating at work to get extra travel
expenses ...................................................................42
14367: Is it permissible to steal from the
kuffaar?.....................................................................42
20062: He was given more money than he
was entitled to ..........................................................46
21401: Well-off people taking things that are
only for the poor from a kaafir state.........................48
31217: Can she use things that her father takes
from work unlawfully?.............................................50
22399: Ruling on working for or buying
magazines whose content is mostly haraam,
as is the case with many women’s magazines,
both Arabic and western...........................................52
25758: Ruling on taxes that are paid on goods ........54
1203: Taking an orphan’s property is stealing..........56
8872: He stole money and gave it to his father........57
12088: Kuwaitis being paid through the United
Nations for the delay in compensation from
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the Iraqis...................................................................57
5559: Their father left behind haraam money..........59
7959: Lying to the government in order to
receive assistance .....................................................60
4642: He had his beard shaved by the barber,
then he repented – so should he pay the barber?......62
66: What to with income partly haram and partly
halal.200697.66.html................................................62
29: Money earned from doing forbidden things.......63
Chapter 2.................................................................................65
Transactions......................................................... 65
Insurance .......................................................................65
21886: Insurance on credit cards..............................65
45656: How should they dispose of insurance
money after their father’s death?..............................66
40336: Working for an insurance company..............67
39474: Benefitting from insurance...........................69
22933: Ruling on shares in a car insurance
company ...................................................................72
9348: He works for a company that deals with
insurance ..................................................................74
30740: Borrowing from one who stipulates
life insurance as a condition of giving the loan........77
21559: Can the heirs benefit from compensation
paid out by the car insurance?..................................79
21262: Should he appoint a kaafir lawyer to
get his money from the insurance company?...........80
10805: Life insurance...............................................81
11361: Is it permissible to take out insurance
to cover funeral expenses? .......................................82
8889: The true nature of insurance and the
rulings concerning it.................................................83
1401: Working for A Company That Covers
All Employees with Insurance .................................87
5392: Compulsory car insurance..............................88
4540: Ruling on accepting compensation for
disability caused at a private school.........................89
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Chapter 3.................................................................................92
Transactions......................................................... 92
Blood Money.................................................................92
40269: Husband forcing his wife to abort a
pregnancy .................................................................92
12049: He killed a man then he committed
suicide. Do the kin of his victim have any
financial rights?........................................................94
9112: His father killed his mother; can he
take the inheritance from him on the basis
that it is diyah (blood money)?.................................95
Chapter 4.................................................................................97
Transactions......................................................... 97
Debts .............................................................................97
13945: It is permissible to waive part of a
debt in return for bringing forward repayment.........97
33700: Should marriage be given priority
over settling debts?.................................................100
26842: He let him off the debt and now he
is asking for it to be paid........................................101
13180: Writing a debt and having it witnessed ......102
21626: He borrowed money and the person
to whom it was owed has died, and he does
not know how to repay it........................................106
3469: Which should he do first – go for Hajj
or pay off his father’s debt?....................................108
6362: Paying a debt with a check which the
vendor has not yet cashed.......................................108
5980: He has a debt for something haraam
– should he repay it?...............................................109
5979: Too much debt..............................................111
5345: People borrow things and do not
return them. What to do?........................................112
4693: Giving charity on behalf of others................114
3674: He has repented but he still owes money
for music tapes .......................................................115
2806: If one can’t find the lender in order to
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repay a debt, what should one do? .........................116
58: Borrowing money from one whose
income comprises haram money............................117
Chapter 5...............................................................................118
Transactions....................................................... 118
Felonies: General ........................................................118
40269: Husband forcing his wife to abort a
pregnancy ...............................................................118
Question: ................................................................118
Answer: ..................................................................118
13317: Abortion of pregnancy resulting
from rape................................................................120
12475: Rulings to do with abortion........................124
12289: Ruling on aborting a deformed foetus........126
11875: She had an abortion in the second
month; does she have to offer any expiation?........129
48996: Her husband is going to divorce her
and she is in the early stages of pregnancy.
Can she have an abortion?......................................131
33683: Blood-money and expiation must
be paid if one kills a kaafir who is protected
by sharee’ah............................................................132
39502: A vehicle overturned in front of him
and he hit it, and two people died ..........................136
42321: Ruling on aborting a pregnancy in the
early stages .............................................................138
8894: Should we forgive the kuffaar if they
harm us?.................................................................139
10923: Murder is one of the greatest of
major sins ...............................................................149
12118: Abortion of physically deformed
foetus......................................................................150
13319: Abortion after the soul has been
breathed into the foetus ..........................................153
13331: Abortion of a foetus resulting from
a zina relationship ..................................................155
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