Working Around the Impermissible
460 questions
What is the ruling on working for a public authority specialized in tourism development that requires organizing survey work, identifying locations, and handing over lands to investors, given that one sheikh issued a fatwa permitting it, while the Fatwa Committee issued a fatwa prohibiting the work of a colleague who inspects tourist establishments that include swimming pools, bars, and discotheques?
What is the ruling on a woman working in national companies, and is it permissible to resign from work to please one's parents?
Is the salary received for vacation days, which the employer counts as working hours to avoid deductions, Islamically permissible, given the danger of being at work on those days and that this system has been ongoing for four years?
Is it better to leave a company that deals in usury and move to another that is free of it?
How should a girl pray to her Lord to make her manager forget the gestures and allusions she made during her conversation with him?
What is the ruling on the work and salary of a director who works for a sports channel and directs footage of women playing sports?
What is the ruling on a religious, veiled woman working in an internet cafe, and how should she deal with people's negative perceptions and unacceptable comments towards this work?
What is the Sharia ruling on a Muslim doctor working in mixed hospitals, where he treats both men and women, with the possibility of avoiding unlawful seclusion, in a country where there are no other non-mixed hospitals, and would greater harms result from leaving this work?
What is the ruling on working in the maintenance of an information system belonging to a horse racing betting establishment, and what is the ruling on the wages earned from this work? Is it permissible to work temporarily to gain experience for career advancement?
What is the ruling on working in the sale of prohibited foods and drinks in Western countries out of necessity to pay off debts and obligations, while the heart is at peace with faith?
How can one absolve oneself from the salary earned over years of repeated unauthorized absences from work, with the desire to calculate the hours missed or donate their value?
Is it permissible for a wife working in a mixed-gender facility, who cannot wait until her retirement date, to agree with the accountant to take half her salary in exchange for her absence from work until her retirement date?
Does my work in organizing desert races, and my efforts to reduce the harm resulting from them, count as removing harm from our country, or should I leave this field?
Is working for a mobile services company in the entertainment sales section (of images and ringtones) unlawful? And is the money earned from it unlawful, given that the nature of the work is purely technical and not related to the content?
What is the ruling on working in a commercial bank that is decided to be converted into an Islamic bank within two years?
Is working as a security guard in a hotel permissible or forbidden?
What is the ruling on working in an examination office that determines the percentage of damage to insured goods?
What is the ruling on working for a company that deals with usurious transactions, knowing that my salary is not currently from the company, and given the scarcity of job opportunities in Algeria? And what is the ruling on my continued employment after my salary becomes from the company, and I will be directing customers to a usurious bank to complete the installment sale process?
Is it impermissible to work for a software company that is developing a program for a grocery store selling Danish products, knowing that Denmark has insulted the Prophet Muhammad, peace and blessings be upon him?
Is working in the ownership of an internet café, or providing internet service to homes, permissible or forbidden, especially with the variety of internet uses, some of which are permissible and some of which are forbidden? And does the owner of the café bear the burden of the users whom he cannot control?
What is the ruling on working in scientific research to develop high-quality communication systems, knowing that they may be used for both permissible and impermissible purposes, and does the sin of impermissible use fall upon the researcher? And what are the jurisprudential rules related to that?
Is it permissible to work for a company that develops and programs machines for managing financial transactions, knowing that its clients include usurious banks, Islamic banks, and other companies?
What is the ruling on using perfumes and creams that contain alcohol, and what is the ruling on working in a factory that produces cheeses containing whiskey, and what is the ruling on entering the bathroom with a necklace on which Ayatul-Kursi is written?
What is the ruling on receiving a salary from a government job without actually performing the work, and what is the ruling on the money earned therefrom, and what is the ruling on combining this salary with another salary from a government or private job?