Honesty in Trade
358 questions
What is the ruling on my work in a Takaful insurance company after I discovered that among the insured are a nightclub and a company that manufactures cigarette papers?
What is the ruling on a university professor who forged his appointment papers to obtain a higher academic degree, a larger salary, and other undeserved benefits? What is the ruling on remaining silent about him? Is it permissible to report him? And what is the ruling on those who know about his forgery but did not report him?
What is the ruling on an employer agreeing with a Saudi employee to use his name to register him in the Saudization support system, whereby the Saudi receives 1500 riyals monthly without working, while the employer benefits from the remaining 1500 riyals and from bringing in a foreign worker?
What is the ruling on money taken by a person from the municipality in exchange for providing a maid for his sick mother, while there is no maid, and he lies to the municipality about that? And what is your advice to him?
Is working as a sales representative for a tourism company that markets via a "timeshare" system permissible, knowing that customers are convinced by being promised prizes, which then entails the purchase of a lifelong "timeshare," and the salary is a percentage of the contracts?
What is the ruling on benefiting from the allowance granted by the health insurance fund to a person afflicted with a chronic illness that prevents him from working, knowing that he concealed previous symptoms from the doctor during employment?
Is it permissible to work as an accountant for a company that provides hotels with bars for alcohol and dancing, and is the salary earned from this work unlawful?
What is the legitimacy of an agreement between the owner of an advertising agency, who valued his trade name at a specific amount, and a person who paid him a sum in exchange for obtaining 32% of the agency's net profits annually, knowing that the capital is fixed and not used to purchase assets, and that the paid amount was distributed among the buyout of an old partner, rent, and equipment? And are the profits obtained permissible?
Is it permissible to take a percentage of the profit after marketing a global product to a client in Qatar, and then suggest the same product to an institution where you work as a technical consultant, and it is subsequently purchased?
What is the ruling on purchasing a house via Murabaha from Tunisia's Zitouna Islamic Bank, given the following conditions: the imposition of 20 dinars after a 5-day grace period for each delay in payment, which the bank does not benefit from; the imposition of commercial life and home insurance due to the absence of Takaful insurance; and the bank authorizing the client to purchase the house in the bank's name?
What is the ruling on lying to the manager to cover an employee's absence and avoid social harm in the work environment?
Is it permissible to spend money acquired from a scholarship, which was not deducted for days of absence despite warnings to that effect, on charitable causes?
What is the ruling on obtaining a university scholarship that requires a certificate of unemployment, given that I am employed and my salary does not cover my daily needs?
What is the ruling on money a man will receive from a government office two weeks after returning to his original job, if the law does not permit him to do so until after three months?
What is the ruling on working as an internal auditor in a Saudi installment company that sells goods through a lease-to-own system, knowing that the sales mechanism includes non-refundable fees, and the company’s purchase and ownership of the commodity before selling it in installments through two contracts (leasing and a promise to own), and the leasing contract includes certain conditions such as mandatory comprehensive insurance and the company’s right to reclaim the commodity? And is it permissible to work there if it refrains from activities related to usurious loans, which the company states it will soon repay and replace with Islamic alternatives?
Is it permissible for a female teacher to take leave from school to perform Umrah, knowing that she has completed all her curricula and is entitled to sick and casual leave?
Is it permissible to take an additional sum from a craftsman in exchange for completing a task, such that this amount is above his original wage?
Is it considered forgery or unlawful for a believing woman to take the full insurance amount if the laboratory owner recorded the official amount of the analyses on the invoice before the discount, even though she paid him a lesser amount after the discount? And what should she do if that is unlawful?
What is the ruling on working in an administrative position at an institution that provides loans to young people, with the possibility of it acting as an intermediary between borrowers and usurious banks, and is the salary resulting from this work considered suspicious?
Is money earned from a car allowance for field work permissible if the contractor, instead of providing cars as per the contract, secretly gives employees an agreed-upon sum, with the knowledge of officials? What is the ruling on amounts I received for days I did not perform field work? How can the amount of money that must be returned from past years be determined? Is it permissible to deposit this money into the "discharging one's liability" account opened by the state? What is the ruling on money we receive for overtime, if the administration provides it to all employees even if there is no need for it?
What is the ruling on benefiting from the housing allowance provided by the Ministry of Health, which requires presenting a rental contract not exceeding 50,0 [currency unit] in order to be granted, when living in the father's house? Is it permissible to present an unauthentic rental contract, or to acquire a house or land through the bank's ijara system, or to rent a house for 50,0 and sublet it, or to rent the father's house with a contract that includes appliances and services, taking into account the fear of delay in payment by the employer?
Is it permissible to register at a training center to benefit from student transportation discounts rather than for study?
What is the ruling on working for a real estate marketing company that offers properties through both cash and installment systems, and benefits from a commission from the buyer, knowing that the installment system is carried out through usurious banks or financing companies that adopt the Ijara-Muntahia-Bil-Tamleek (lease-to-own) contract, and the company is responsible for following up on transactions with these entities?
Is it permissible for a person suffering from extreme poverty and lack of work opportunities to enter chat rooms frequented by corrupt individuals, impersonating a girl to obtain top-up cards from young men, with the aim of using them for lawful purposes and accumulating money to start a project and distance himself from these practices, knowing that the young men from whom he takes the credit spend it on unlawful things?