Contracts and Wages
313 questions
Is it permissible for an engineer to accept payment for designing or decorating a mixed-gender café where shisha is served and cigarettes are smoked? If it is impermissible (haram), is it permissible to complete it and donate the payment if it is not possible to withdraw after having promised or started the work?
Is what is given to a sister, such as seasonal gifts and the like, considered undeserved, especially since the money comes from her brothers' work on the land? And should she return this money? And are her brothers not allowed to pay for the costs of furnishing her apartment in the new house?
Is it Islamically permissible for charitable organizations to discriminate in salaries between Saudi and expatriate employees, by granting Saudis higher salaries despite equal experience and qualifications, or even the expatriates sometimes having superior ones?
Is it permissible to enter into ownership of homes offered by the state through a lottery for low-income individuals in Turkey, whose monthly payments increase every six months according to the rise in employee wages?
Is the manager entitled to retract a written and documented agreement concerning the mechanism for calculating commission, and to differentiate between employees in its disbursement, on the pretext that it is a bonus or because it was not mentioned in the original contract?
What is the ruling on a hotel using a payment system with bank cards, the funds from which may be used in usurious investments, and what is the ruling on working in this hotel and receiving wages for it?
Does delaying the salary of a Muslim maid and not providing her with sufficient food, leading her to eat surreptitiously, accord with the rulings of Islam?
What is the ruling on selling a portion of donated clothes to cover the expenses and wages of workers in a relief organization?
What is the ruling on the money that a father takes from a contractor in exchange for supervising the unloading of trucks and covering the workers' expenses, while retaining a portion of the amount for himself as payment for his additional work? Is this money considered theft or a contract? And what is the ruling on the financial gifts that the contractor sends to the father in exchange for his service?
Are administrative expenses (such as salaries and management costs) taken into account when determining the halal profit from the father's investment in the gas station, considering that the percentage was not specified, but it was agreed to calculate workers' wages, taxes, and some expenses?
What is the ruling on someone who works for only one month to receive the salary then resigns; is this permissible?
Is the agricultural yield considered an inheritance if the father died before harvesting it, given that his will or prior agreement with his two sons is unknown?
Is it permissible for me to keep the wages I received during a period of my work in which I was negligent, or must I return a portion of it to the employer, and how should I act if repayment is obligatory, given my extreme reluctance to confront him?
Is paying money to a sick person to ascertain the correct symptoms considered a bribe, and what must the one who does it do to repent from it?
Is the liquidator legally responsible for returning the money of those working with her after she was defrauded by the first party and did not receive her dues?
What is the ruling on receiving wages from the Al-Abbas Holy Shrine, knowing that the source of these funds is charities that are mingled with or are not for the sake of Allah, or are they for the sake of Allah?
What is the ruling on taking wages for two days of work in building something designated for drinking alcohol?
Is taking one-third of the truffle harvest permissible or forbidden, knowing that I own the car, transport the workers, and provide them with some services?
Must the family pay the full amount to the tailor after the death of the owner of the abaya, knowing that the abaya was not received?
Is it permissible to take a program code as collateral or ownership in exchange for overdue wages, knowing that the code is a trust and there is a fear that the employer will not pay the dues?
Is it permissible to deal with banks if the salary is transferred to them, knowing that the wages will not be withdrawn in full monthly?
What is the ruling of Islamic law on increasing the number of days for official assignments to obtain a larger additional wage, knowing that these assignments sometimes require working outside official working hours?
Does divorce occur or is the husband's oath binding if the wife accepts 50 pounds from her mother to increase the maid's wages, after the husband swore, "By divorce, I will not increase it a single pound until I die"?
What is the legal share of daughters from their father's inheritance, and is this right calculated before or after the prosperity of the shop's business? And what must the sons do to clear their father's liability?