Permissible Occupations
600 questions
Is it permissible to use the scholarship to cover study expenses, rent, and work-related transportation, given that the salary has not yet been disbursed?
Is it permissible to donate the salary of an employee who left work without notification and did not claim it for three years?
Is it permissible for an employee contracted with a governmental entity, who declared himself unemployed to obtain academic admission and a university stipend, to take this stipend, knowing that he is in need of it?
What is the ruling on working temporarily on a project to fix problems in a large bank with doubts surrounding it, knowing that the salary is from the company and not directly from the bank, and is it permissible to fabricate problems to avoid this work?
Am I right not to obey my mother regarding food and benefiting from the money of haram Saudization, and what is the ruling on my current benefit from what my mother bought with this money?
Is it permissible to lie if it is part of one's job and does not harm others, but would result in personal harm such as salary deduction or termination of employment if one does not lie?
Is it permissible for someone who has repented of lying on their CV to utilize the experience they gained during their previous employment, and is the salary from that work considered unlawful?
Is the salary increase, which occurred by changing the allowance's designation from "engineer" to "technician" without my knowledge, but which my colleague confirmed is my right because I perform the work of both a technician and an engineer, permissible for me to take, or is it unlawful?
Is it permissible for the solicitor to increase the financial offer to contractors and take the difference in exchange for his effort and expertise, knowing that he provides contractors for his governmental manager who was instrumental in his appointment and benefits from these works?
Is working as a security guard at a fine arts college that produces statues and images of animate beings, some of which are nude and immodest, permissible or forbidden, especially given the employee's distress and discomfort, and the rejection of his transfer request?
Is it permissible to work as a medical aesthetics device sales representative, knowing the impermissibility of the field of aesthetics, and given the tempting salary, and is it possible to leave the job and repent after having earned from it?
Is it permissible for a person living in Europe to receive two salaries: one from their work in Europe, and the other their usual salary from Iraq (not a retirement pension)?
Is the salary earned from a previous job considered unlawful (haram) if part of the work involved practices that might be deceptive, such as adding an unrequested service to the customer without their knowledge (like fictional fumigation), given that the employee was unsure whether he had agreed to or performed such actions, and did not receive a commission from these sales?
Is it permissible for a manager who has the petty cash of the institution to take from it what he needs before his salary is released, and then take from it after his salary is released?
Is it permissible to demand salaries and other contractual entitlements after arbitrary dismissal, knowing that labor law rules in my favor, and does this conform to the Islamic legal opinion?
Is it permissible to take a 10% commission from the cost of transactions that I complete for the company's employees, which is added to the original amount without the workers' knowledge? Are the funds acquired from this permissible (halal)? What is the legitimate (Sharia-compliant) way to obtain compensation for completing these transactions? Is it necessary to inform the company owner or only the transaction owner?
Is the questioner’s act of swearing that she would not take blood pressure medication—even though her blood pressure was high at the time of the examination and the doctor recorded a lower value based on her oath—considered a false testimony, and consequently, is her salary unlawful? And what should she do?
Is it permissible for the Imam to combine the salary of the Imamate with being an employee and having sufficient means?
What is the ruling on sending the files of employees - who hold unlawful positions - to the main center, which results in the calculation of their retirement benefits, given that the company grants paid leaves of up to 106 days per year?
What is the ruling on the salary of an engineer, knowing that his contractor obtains projects through bribery and orders the theft of raw materials, coupled with a scarcity of job opportunities and a fear of leaving this work?
What is the ruling on a private driver working for a family where the employer's wife or daughter rides with him alone, knowing that the daughter does not adhere to the legal hijab and he stays out with her late at night, taking her to places of intermingling? Is he sinful if he leaves the job without finding an alternative? And does his fear for his livelihood contradict reliance on Allah (tawakkul)?
What is the ruling on the seller estimating the value of what the customer ate from the goods before purchasing them and deducting it from the weight without informing him, in order to guarantee his trustworthiness with the employer?
Is money earned from freelance work, agreed upon with a colleague, then assigned to the office where the person works, with him receiving a percentage of the profits without the employer's knowledge, lawful or unlawful?
Is money acquired through defrauding government agencies by submitting fictitious invoices for work performed internally permissible or forbidden?