Buying and Selling
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Is it permissible to raise the price of a service that requires mediation and to collect the increase without informing the beneficiary, for the purpose of compensating for the effort and time expended in the mediation, and is this considered a permissible type of trade?
What is the ruling on dealing with banknotes through buying and selling currencies with the intention of trading or fulfilling a need in a foreign country?
What is the ruling on selling books protected by copyright to foreign authors, and what is the ruling on the money earned from that?
What is the ruling on holding a book fair in the basement of a mosque that was formerly a mosque and was relinquished by the mosque committee to other associations, knowing that the proceeds of the fair will go to the library affiliated with the mosque and to the mosque committee?
Is dealing considered usurious if the bank sells building materials in annual installments with a profit margin higher than the market price?
Is it permissible to take a 20% share of the agreed-upon profits from buying and selling real estate, prior to the actual sale of the property?
Is the questioner considered negligent and will he be held accountable before God for abandoning his father's trade, which led to debts after he left it to them, despite suffering from pangs of conscience for achieving a better situation than them after great effort, knowing that he helps his younger siblings with a monthly sum and resolves inheritance issues?
Is it permissible to resell or make available designs that have been purchased, knowing that the website's terms and conditions prohibit redistribution after purchase?
Is buying a house by installments permissible or forbidden, and what is the interpretation of the supplication, "O Allah, loosen a knot from my tongue so that they may understand my speech"?
Is it permissible to use a perfume that is likely or predominantly thought to contain hashish, and if not, is it permissible to purchase an imitation of this perfume because it contains hashish?
1. Are clothes bearing a forbidden symbol (such as a cross) considered ritually impure (نجسة) and do they contaminate what is around them? 2. Is buying a mobile phone with the intention of imitating a person who does not pray, without being aware of the impermissibility of such imitation, considered disbelief (kufr)? What is the ruling on using it for necessities or entertainment? And if one sells it and buys another with its price, does that make the money unlawful? 3. Is imitating disbelievers considered disbelief (kufr) if done with the intention of imitating them, or is it always disbelief, or are there cases where it is merely unlawful?
Do the outer courtyards of the mosque take the same ruling as the mosque, and is it permissible for someone in itikaf to go out to them and engage in buying and selling there?
Does exposure to harassment necessitate a legal punishment or diminish a person's standing with Allah and his masculinity?
What is the ruling on buying a car through the bank using the Murabaha method, and what is the ruling on installment sales?
Is it permissible to use products from a company that sells nutritional supplements through a multi-level marketing system, and to benefit from them if there is a Sharia flaw in the sales system? And is it permissible to sell this company's products without receiving commissions from it?
Is zakat due on the original capital and profits only, or on the amount added to the original capital, knowing that the buying and selling with the added amount took place within four months?
Is it forbidden for a student association to sell human bones and skulls to students, knowing that these are exhumed from graves?
Have the fatwas concerning unlawful money been retracted, such as fatwa number: 3951, which prohibits money resulting from unlawful trade, and fatwa number: 50478, which permits investing it and inclines towards the permissibility of its profit, and does the phrase "halal only" mean there is no disagreement?
What is the ruling on buying fuel coupons with Dinars from someone who owns them, then selling them to another party in exchange for a deferred invoice with a percentage of profit or for a service fee?
Does the ruling on selling statues differ if their purpose is different from the days of Jahiliyyah, such that they are not worshipped, nor sold to those who worship them, nor held with any veneration in the heart, and their sale would financially benefit Muslims, from the ruling commanded by the Prophet (peace be upon him) against selling them?
Is it permissible to trade in goods of unknown origin, and what is the ruling on the profits derived from them, out of fear that they might be stolen?
Is the surgeon held Islamically accountable when performing a kidney transplant if it becomes apparent that the sale of the kidney was done by concealing the truth? What is the Islamic ruling if the donor confesses to this during the operation? And is it Islamically permissible for the patient to give a gift to the donor in return for their sacrifice?
What is the ruling on buying a phone in installments then selling it for cash to obtain money, with the intention of paying the installments from another country through an agent?
Is it permissible for money obtained through extortion to become lawful after the extorted person forgives the extortionist and the original amount is given as charity?