Work & Ethics
Work questions come from a desk, a shop floor or a job offer. This topic covers contracts and wages, employer and employee rights, honesty in trade, prayer and fasting at work, and job seeking. Readers ask what a contract may contain, what happens when a wage is late, and how to fit prayer into a shift. Every answer here is a sourced summary of a fatwa published on Ftawy, with the full ruling one tap away. Start with contracts and wages if your question is about what you were promised.
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Is it permissible to continue working for the company and donate the proceeds from the second level to the needy, while clarifying the Shariah ruling to those invited to register, knowing that the company requires both the first and second levels to begin working?
What is the ruling on my current work as a waiter in a restaurant where there is mixing of sexes, immodest display, and extravagance, and what is the ruling on embezzling money from the extravagant, and what is the ruling on stealing from the employer to reclaim my right that was unjustly withheld?
What is the ruling if it is impossible to perform ablution at the workplace due to the presence of men, which forces a woman to delay the Dhuhr prayer and combine it with the Asr prayer at home? Does this delay cause her to fall into sin?
Is it permissible to eat food offered by a shrine where polytheism is practiced, and is the salary paid for working there lawful?
Is it permissible for a Muslim residing in Canada, who works long hours and travels between clients, to perform prayers in the car, either in congregation or individually? And is it permissible for him to perform tayammum instead of wudu due to the lack of a suitable place or water?
Is it permissible for me—given that I work nights in a factory in France with long fasting hours—to fast according to the time in Mecca, Morocco, or any Arab country on workdays, especially since my husband does not face the same circumstances?
Is it obligatory to inform one's parents about the husband's violent and illicit sexual practices, his failure to fulfill religious duties, and to seek divorce, or should one return to him to preserve the children?
Which is better: attending a graduation ceremony that coincides with the time of Tarawih prayer, or performing the Tarawih prayer, knowing that this occasion is unrepeatable?
What is the ruling on benefiting from a person who works in an unlawful profession and all his money is unlawful, such as him being the cause for obtaining a lawful job, and are there similar examples in the books of Fiqh?
Does the secretion of a dark yellow, viscous fluid from an oral inflammation, with a slightly salty taste, affect the validity of fasting and prayer, especially with its continuous and uninterrupted flow, the swallowing of saliva mixed with it, the use of household utensils, sneezing droplets, and the discharge of slight blood from it? And is this fluid considered impure, nullifying ablution and prayer, knowing that the doctor described it as a natural secretion, unlike blood and pus?
What is the ruling on the fasting and prayer of one who suffers from excessive sexual desire that leads to touching the genitals and the emission of prostatic fluid (madhy) unintentionally? Do these actions invalidate his fasting and prayer? What is the way to stop sexual thoughts and excessive desire that do not cease even during worship, knowing that one continues to pray, supplicate, and recite the Quran? And is it forbidden to pleasure oneself in this chronic condition due to the inability to marry?
Is it obligatory to leave a job where one can pray and wear the hijab, but where music is constantly present, or to continue in it until a better job becomes available?
Is a woman's fast valid if a reddish-brown discharge appeared, which she thought was her menstrual period, and based on that, she did not pray Fajr, but then it later became clear that it was not menstrual blood, so she made up the Fajr prayer?
Is it permissible to accept payment for establishing a company that sells quality control monitoring systems for television broadcasts, and would I be sinful if the company sold its systems to corrupt channels?
How should the questioner act, whose situation has become difficult with his father, who he has become accustomed to relying on for everything, and he experiences frustration and insults from him, and his salary is not enough for his family's livelihood, and he fears being disobedient to his father if he leaves working with him to look for another independent job, knowing that he has found an opportunity as a transport driver, which he considers honorable, but his father and brothers mock it?
Is a woman's ritual bath, fasting, and prayer valid after a sticky brown discharge, followed by a sticky white discharge mixed with blood for two days, five days after her purification, knowing that on the first day she saw a clear discharge and a yellowish-brown discharge? And is it permissible for her to make up these two days if it becomes obligatory for her to do so, considering she has already begun fasting the six days of Shawwal?
Is working as a receptionist in a hotel permissible or forbidden, and is it permissible to work in what is called a "halal hotel"?
Is a young man considered sinful, and is his money unlawful, if a colleague of his was transferred to an unsafe location in the army instead of him, and is he responsible if any harm befell his colleague?
Does sending supplications and posts via a WhatsApp group to relatives who have caused family problems and severed ties count as maintaining kinship ties?
Do frequent changes in the contractor's terms, and the refusal to treat a work injury, negate the worker's right to claim before God, because he agreed to continue working despite the violations, due to the unavailability of other work?
Is working as a customer service representative in a government bank, where a large part of the job involves granting loans to customers, forbidden (haram)?
Is it permissible for me to marry a man who will divorce his wife - who is my sister's friend - knowing that he works in a bank and wishes to change his job, and is diligent in performing prayers in the mosque?
Is it permissible to perform Istikhara seeking success in a job competition while wishing for a specific outcome?
When is the time for the morning and evening adhkar? Is it permissible to recite them upon waking up for work, or should it be immediately after Fajr prayer? Are they restricted to the time of sunrise and sunset?