Buying and Selling
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What is the ruling on the the mosque's committee selling a rug that a man donated to the mosque, and buying another rug with its price?
Is zakat obligatory on a commercial property that was purchased with the intention of trade and sale, then its direct investment ceased for a period while the intention of selling remained, and how much is the zakat if it becomes obligatory?
What is the ruling on trading physical commodities (coffee, sugar, oil, gold, silver) online through a financial intermediary, where the trader does not take physical possession of the goods, but immediate exchange of payment occurs, and no leverage is used?
How can one deal with an antique piece stolen from an antique dealer, given the inability to return it to him or hand it over to the security authorities?
Is it permissible to work as an accountant in a commercial company and sell the same product for my own account, away from the company and through a friend?
What is the ruling on earning or profiting money through the Internet?
Is the profit resulting from buying and selling foreign currencies in a joint bank account, which the bank approved and disbursed, considered unlawful wealth merely because the bank later claimed it made an error in determining the prices?
Is it permissible to establish an electronic library that includes a section for learning and maintaining computers, while fearing its use in the trade of devices that may contain illicit materials (movies and songs)? And should this section be removed or kept?
What is the ruling on buying and selling with Banque Saudi Fransi using the Murabaha (Tawarruq) system that it offers in the form of metals?
What is the ruling on banks dealing in the sale of goods, houses, and cars through Murabaha (cost-plus financing), and what is the ruling on the bank taking a service fee, and signing deeds where the amount is not written, and the bank specifying certain places for purchase, and what is the ruling on buying goods in installments from stores?
What is the ruling of Islamic law on using or purchasing textbooks issued by the Ministry of Education, given the condition that prohibits copying or quoting without the Ministry's permission? Does this prohibition apply to private copying? And what is the ruling on purchasing booklets that contain answers to these exercises from unauthorized parties, or downloading them from the internet, especially with the urgent need for them due to the absence of solutions from the original source?
Is it permissible to establish a distinctive tourist café that does not serve alcohol or shisha, and does not play music or television, but rather soft music, knowing that there will be mixing between men and women?
Has the Ministry of Commerce or the competent authorities confirmed that Crystal hot sauce is contaminated with pig oil, and what is the Islamic ruling—on buying, selling, and using it—should this be proven?
What is the ruling on dealing in the stock market with multiples of the capital through a brokerage firm that stipulates the settlement of debt on the same day or the following day, and takes a commission for each buying and selling operation? Is this considered a loan that draws benefit (riba) or a pledging of shares? And what is the ruling on the work of a broker whose salary is determined by the amount of commissions?
What is the ruling on earning profit from Google AdSense when displaying advertisements for real estate, beverages, markets, games, cars, buying and selling websites, perfumes, and education, while prohibiting advertisements for forex, banks, images, videos, and unlawful films? And what is the ruling on the money that has been earned and spent from this program?
What should one do who is unable to buy a house or get married due to a low salary and the Islamic banks' conditions not suiting him, while opportunities are available to him from usurious banks, and with the passage of time, opportunities decrease due to rising prices?
Is it permissible for a partner in a land trade to purchase a plot of land that has been agreed upon to be sold to another person at a certain price, and then sell it to the same person at a higher price, and is it permissible to take the stipulated commission after the sale is completed?
What is the ruling on dealing with the Egyptian stock exchange to save it from collapse?
Is money acquired from selling a motorbike halal after buying it without the father's knowledge and approval?
Is the increase in the value of investment certificates on the stock exchange, which were sold for less than their original purchase price after a fatwa prohibiting dealing with them, considered unlawfully gained wealth (mal haram) to benefit from, or is it a recovery of part of the original capital? And can the loss incurred in these certificates be considered a purifier for usurious money (mal ribawi) mixed with it, or must the usurious money be removed separately?
How is the zakat on trade goods calculated—is it based on the purchase price or the selling price—and is what befell her car due to an error in calculating zakat?
What is the ruling on searching for ancient artifacts (Roman, Israeli) in the West Bank of Palestine, with the aim of earning money and selling them to unidentified parties, knowing that the Palestinian Authority prohibits and punishes this?
Is it permissible to work as a programmer at Amazon, knowing that it sells permissible and prohibited products (with the exception of alcohol, pork, and pornographic magazines), and that the nature of the work is limited to general programming for the company and does not involve selling, buying, or advertising a specific product? And is the income earned from previous training in the same line of work lawful? And what should be done if it is not?
Is it permissible to buy a house mortgaged to a usurious bank and pay its installments to the bank or directly to the homeowner to avoid dealing with the bank?