Job Seeking and Interviews
226 questions
What is the ruling on income earned from work that requires falsifying official data to achieve a higher income, and is it permissible to continue in it out of necessity to support the family until one finds another job?
Is the condition that the wife is going through—who asked for divorce after falling in love with a man she met once and who is now imprisoned, and who accuses her husband of mistreatment and failure due to his job loss—a midlife crisis or a touch from Satan?
What is the religious ruling on seeking information about permits for serving alcohol for a hotel, knowing that obtaining this information may lead to a request to initiate procedures for acquiring them, and that refusing to do so may lead to losing one's job?
What is the ruling on accepting a job obtained through cheating on recruitment exams, especially given the difficulty of finding other work?
What is the ruling on working in a supermarket that sells both permissible (halal) and prohibited (haram) items, while limiting one's work to only arranging and serving the permissible (halal) goods?
What is the ruling on my continuing in a government job where there is no work to do, while I am trying to find another job? And what are the supplications (du'as) for facilitating provision in a better place?
Is it permissible to benefit from a certificate of experience gained from working in a usurious bank after repenting and ceasing this work, for the purpose of seeking employment in another company?
What is the ruling on saying: "O Lord, do not harm anyone," and "Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he will never be disappointed"? Is there any disrespect towards Allah or a bad assumption about Him in these phrases? And does the second phrase distort the saying of the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him: "Blessed is he who finds much seeking of forgiveness in his scroll [of deeds]?"
What is the ruling on working in banks and usurious institutions, knowing that my experience is limited to this field and I cannot find any other work to provide for my family's living requirements?
Must a husband leave his job and his children's future to stay with his father in his home country, to assist him morally with the problems of his adult, married siblings, knowing that the father is not in need financially or health-wise, and refuses to travel?
What is the decision to be made between staying in the current job or moving to another company, especially after performing Salatul-Istikhara, and feeling fear and insecurity due to the small increase in the current salary compared to the offered salary?
Is seeking assistance from foreigners to register on a dating site for financial gain with the intention of marriage considered begging and thus unlawful in Sharia?
What is the ruling on working in the Ministry of Education and on the salary of a female teacher who proved her residency with a false affirmation to a workplace where she does not work, knowing that she performs her job in a way that pleases Allah?
Is abandoning one's current high-paying job considered a sin and a failure to uphold family responsibilities, despite the motivation for leaving being to please Allah and distance oneself from the ambiguities, financial corruption, and moral decay present in it, and to transition to another job with a lower salary but characterized by integrity and non-alliance with corrupt individuals?
Is it permissible to lie out of necessity in order to obtain a job?
Is money earned from working as an accountant for a dance school considered unlawful (haram), and what should be done with money previously earned from this work?
What is the ruling on the salary earned from a job obtained with a forged master's degree, given that the salary is in exchange for effort, knowledge, and experience, and what is the solution for escaping the hardship of debts in light of the difficult living conditions?
How can one remove an affliction and attain God's pleasure after repenting from a severe wrongdoing that led to being afflicted with illness and losing one's job?
Is it permissible to continue receiving a military salary without working, for the purpose of seeking another job, knowing that military work is unsuitable and undesired? And is the salary received by the deceased father, the brother, and the uncle without working considered unlawful? And is the father sinful for registering them?
How does one repent from a usurious loan taken to complete the building of his house, a loan that has caused him several calamities such as losing his job and the deterioration of family relationships, knowing that he cannot repay the loan in a lump sum? And is his praying at home instead of in the mosque due to these circumstances considered one of the calamities?
What is the ruling on a female teacher working in a remote village 70 km away, which requires walking 4 km on foot, given security concerns, the absence of her two colleagues, and the incompleteness of the curriculum, bearing in mind her parents' refusal for her to leave the job, and her desire to teach religious matters to the village children?
Is my repentance accepted because of my fear of not getting a job, or does it require sincere devotion to Allah?
Is my work in a tourist village, which involves ordering alcoholic beverages and writing checks for them, while being unable to lower my gaze and having to resort to masturbation for fear of fornication, Haram (religiously forbidden)? And is my money lawful or unlawful, given that I cannot find any other work?
Is it permissible for a person suffering from social phobia, who is unable to work, to apply for an aid of 2000 Saudi Riyals designated for job seekers, knowing that he does not intend to work even if he finds a job?