Buying and Selling
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Is it permissible for a young man who found a large bag of money buried under a bridge to dispose of it or trade with it?
What is the ruling on buying and selling oil, gas, and their derivatives on Arab and international stock exchanges via margin trading, given the absence of the condition of immediate possession (taqabud), and are there any harms or risks associated with this type of trade? And what is the basis for prohibition or prevention, if any?
What is the ruling on publishing the content of original CDs and cassette tapes—religious or scientific—online for the purpose of public benefit, not trade, knowing that their purchase cost exorbitant amounts?
What is the ruling on buying a car from a bank that describes its transactions as Islamic, according to the steps mentioned, and is this transaction free of prohibitions or doubts?
Can a document, for which payment was not made at the time, and dealing with a friend who started his project with an interest-based loan, make the work unlawful?
Is it permissible to sell clothes that have pictures of animate beings in the form of cartoons?
Is it permissible for me to ask a customer to search for other offers, and then amend my offer based on that, and is this considered among the impermissible “buying over buying” [bayʿ ʿalā al-bayʿ] in Sharia? And what are the cases in which “buying over buying” is permissible?
Is it permissible for a Muslim to buy a video camera for a Muslim brother who deals in selling alcohol, and is it permissible for the brother to pay its price from his money, and is it permissible to buy this device given what was reported from the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, regarding the prohibition of images?
Must a debt incurred for alcohol be paid, and is not paying it considered a sin after committing to it?
What is the ruling on reading e-books, even though publishing is a right of the publishing house, but due to addiction to reading and inability to bear the prices of books?
What is the ruling on marrying a girl whose father works in the alcohol trade, and is it permissible to take money from this father, knowing that the girl herself has financial dealings with her father?
Is it permissible for me to read photocopied books that I bought during my studies and donate some of them to other students, knowing that they were copied without the publisher's permission?
Is it permissible to trade cats for profit, and what is the ruling of Islamic law on that?
How is zakat obligatory on land in which the intention of trade has been mixed with the intention of residence for more than a year, and in the event that it is impossible to sell it or build on it?
Am I sinful if my mother takes her money to a usurious bank to deposit the price of the chalet she bought in cash from a company that deals with this bank, and is she sinful for doing so?
Is it permissible to trade lands by leaving them for a period until their value increases, and then selling them? And is this considered a monopoly?
Is the commission I will receive for exchanging foreign currency for Egyptian pounds permissible, knowing that the source of this money might be from trading Pharaonic antiquities and their statues?
Is it permissible to sell a house to a non-Muslim who deposits his money in banks, and is the prohibition due to his being a non-Muslim, or because of his involvement in usury, or both?
Is it permissible to conduct sales between the end of the Friday prayer in the first mosque and the beginning of the Friday prayer in the second mosque in the same city?
Is it permissible for the private company of a manager, who works for a German company in Qatar and is responsible for referring bids to local companies and purchasing complementary equipment, to be one of these local companies that deal with the German company, knowing that he can offer a lower price and better quality?
Is it permissible to take money from a Muslim woman who married a Christian man?
What is the ruling on building a commercial shop in the mosque courtyard and dedicating its rent to the mosque, given that it is not possible to control the sales within it?
What is the ruling on participating in a company, affiliated with a British bank, that buys and sells currencies on the global online exchange, whether the participant does so himself or it is done automatically by the company's software?
What is the ruling on cultivating Indian hemp and benefiting from it on inherited land, and what is the role of uncles and grandchildren in stopping this exploitation?