Job Seeking and Interviews
- 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?
- 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 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?
- Is the money the questioner received from the state, after claiming to be searching for work, while knowing she was lying, unlawful (haram) or lawful (halal)? And what should she do with it? And is it her right or her husband's right?
- What is the ruling on an architect working on a tourist hotel project that contains forbidden things, and the salary earned from it, and is it permissible to leave this job and join another lawful one with a lower salary?
- Is it permissible to work in a pharmacy that engages in practices such as concealing sought-after medications and selling them only to those holding a "Shifa" card, and altering prescribed medications for patients in order to retain them as customers? And is this permissible if the person cannot find any other work?
- Is it permissible to study Islamic law at university with the aim of obtaining a well-paid job, knowing that I do not intend to teach people or become a teacher? And does this contradict the Hadiths that forbid seeking knowledge for worldly gain, and the Hadith that permits taking a wage for teaching the Book of Allah?
- What is the most suitable university major (among Finance and Investment, Insurance and Risk Management, Business Administration, Banking, Economics) that avoids riba for someone who specialized in Finance and Investment and wishes to change their major?
- Is it permissible for a girl whose father and husband have passed away to refuse marriage, especially since she heard that a woman in Paradise will be with her last husband? And is it advisable to seek a job to avoid idleness and the whispers of Satan?
- What is the ruling on working as an accountant in a government entity and entering data for bank loans for employees, where it is required to deduct the installment amount from the employee's salary without knowledge of the interest between the bank and the employee, and what is the ruling on transferring deduction statements for employee loans to banks?
- Is it permissible for a young man to leave his work with his father and rely on himself for his livelihood and to seek Islamic knowledge, especially if his father is self-sufficient and does not encourage seeking knowledge?
- What is the ruling on a capable father spending on his daughter who receives a stipend from the university, and his other daughter who has a job?
- What is the advice that helps one get rid of failure, wasted life, excessive debt, constant worry, repay debts, and end expatriation? And is it better to end expatriation and look for work in one's home country despite difficult circumstances and one's mother's refusal? And what is the supplication that removes worry, forgives sin, and settles debt?
- Does a vow become binding by uttering aloud, "A vow for a job," without a specific intention, and then the intention to donate the salary from this job arises later? And is it obligatory to donate the salary in this case?
- Is money earned from a job related to a religious specialization or otherwise considered "a worldly gain" that falls under the warning: "Whoever learns knowledge by which the face of Allah is sought, yet he learns it only to gain a worldly acquisition thereby, will not find the fragrance of Paradise"? And does rejoicing upon graduation and informing people about it fall under this warning?
- Is it permissible for a husband and wife to live separately to avoid divorce, with the husband visiting his wife in her separate dwelling? And is it permissible for the wife to remove her niqab due to the department she studies in prohibiting it, even though she dislikes it and it causes problems with her husband?
- Is including sincere, God-intended charitable work from which one has received certificates of appreciation in one's CV for the purpose of job acceptance considered showing off?
- Is it permissible for an accountant to fulfill the request of the owner of an establishment to enter indirect administrative expenses into projects without the knowledge of the partners, given the accountant's awareness of the suspicion of unlawfulness and the employer's affirmation of bearing the sin, and knowing that this work is his sole source of income?
- What is the ruling on working in commercial insurance companies and on the money earned from it, especially after a previous fatwa permitting it, and given the current difficulty of leaving this job?
- What is the ruling on the salary of a suitor who cheated in his studies, and is his repentance a condition for his salary to be lawful?
- Is it permissible to work for a company that carries out advertising work for casinos and bars, given that the designer himself refuses to do such work, and is his salary considered unlawful, and does the need for employment make it permissible to undertake such work?
- Is it permissible for a woman to seek divorce from her husband who previously lied to her, and she discovers his repeated betrayals, and he blames her for leaving his job for her to study abroad?
- Is it permissible for an Imam and Khateeb who has been remiss in his government job to spend the money he wants to absolve himself of (and which he knows is being spent on the general interests of Muslims) on purchasing books of Sharia sciences for his own benefit in Da'wah and seeking knowledge?