Honesty in Trade
321 questions
Is it permissible for vineyard owners to stipulate experience for grape-harvesting laborers, and is it permissible for someone in need of work to claim to possess it?
Is it permissible to subscribe to optional social security to provide for the needs of individuals, especially in old age and inability to work, given the state's failure to care for them, and does this contradict reliance upon Allah?
Is it permissible for an employee who lives with his parents and uses public transportation at his own expense to receive a transportation allowance designated for living in his distant apartment, knowing that the company provides transportation in the area where his parents live, but he does not use it?
Is it permissible to enter medical measurements and patient data approximately or based on previous measurements in order to obtain an additional portion of the salary, knowing that this action does not harm the patient and that not entering them does not cause a penalty other than not obtaining this portion of the salary?
Is it permissible for the second party to establish a second company (Company-2) with a fourth party, without informing the first or third party, provided that the necessary laborers and engineers are added to the second company, and utilized by the first company, in exchange for the second party bearing all governmental expenses and employee costs for the second company, and the fourth party receiving 3% of the revenues from installation works carried out by the first company, thereby leading to the first and third parties not benefiting from the operational installation work profits?
What is the ruling on an employee signing in and out on his official day off—such as Friday—without working, and being paid for it, with the knowledge of his manager, for the purpose of improving his financial situation, given that company regulations allow this?
Is it permissible to sell services such as design, writing, and programming, the details of which are not known except upon the client's request, and then contract with a third party to complete them for a lower price, knowing that payment is not made until after the service is delivered and the client approves it?
Is it permissible to work for delivery applications in violation of the vehicle's type and model conditions, and is the money earned from that unlawful?
Are villa and land owners who refrain from paying the agreed-upon maintenance fees to the General Assembly considered sinful?
Is money taken for the use of an uncultivated agricultural land contract to market others' crops permissible (halal)?
Is it permissible to take an additional percentage of the profit without the brothers' knowledge, in exchange for guaranteeing the capital, knowing that the remaining profit is satisfactory for them?
Who bears the losses if those in charge of the company refuse to liquidate my account and give me the capital I previously requested, and is it permissible to supplicate against them for withholding my money?
Is it forbidden to acquire money or work in any other way—such as gifts from parents or employment—if one of the conditions for the university scholarship is not to acquire any other financial income?
Is it permissible to work in an Islamic bank that deals with a usurious bank, knowing that part of the tasks involves developing software for recording usurious interests, and does the ruling on aiding in usury apply to this job?
What is the ruling on investing in real estate, whereby an investor pays an amount for a share to purchase a residential building in Dubai, lease it out, and then distribute the profits to investors according to their contribution?
Is the reception of a luxurious box of sweets from a Chinese contractor by a contracts employee at a telecommunications company, after the signing of a contract between the two parties, considered "ghulul" (unlawful taking from public property/betrayal of trust)?
Is it permissible for the director of an Awqaf department to arrive late and leave early, on the grounds that he is a director, while holding employees accountable for leaving to attend to their needs, and is the director's superior permitted to allow him to do so?
How can the dispute between the two partners be resolved regarding the agreed-upon 15% ratio: is it ownership in the project or a percentage of the profits? What are the permissible forms of partnership contracts, with a clarification of their conditions? And does the matter depend on the agreement of the two parties, or is it subject to specific Sharia texts?
Is it permissible to work as an accountant and contracts writer in a showroom that sells electrical appliances on installment, where goods are bought from the showroom’s account at a certain price (e.g., 1075), then the buyer sells them on credit to a customer at a higher price (e.g., 1800) in installments, and then the showroom buys the goods from the customer in cash at a lower price (e.g., 1000)?
Is it considered unjust not to give a share of the profits to a partner after he has been excluded from the management of the factory—which was established and financed by the investor—especially given his argument that industrial projects take time to generate profits?
What is the ruling on dealing in "stock options" which grant the buyer the right to purchase or sell a share at an agreed-upon price within a specified period?
Is the trading of binary options – which relies on predicting the rise or fall of currency pairs, commodities, or indices, with the possibility of investing a sum and obtaining a specific return if the prediction is correct, or losing it if it is wrong, and with the availability of Islamic accounts free of usury – considered permissible, given that the prediction is based on study and understanding of the market and not random guessing?
Is the clause that prevents an employee from dealing with the company's clients for years after leaving their job permissible in Islamic law, and is it permissible for them to deal with a client despite this clause?
Is the money taken for using a person's name to obtain a company license permissible or forbidden, knowing that the company commonly uses this method to obtain licenses?