Working Around the Impermissible
460 questions
Is working in a store that provides installment payment methods through financing companies or credit cards at prices higher than the cash price impermissible, bearing in mind that this might be considered condoning falsehood and assisting in wrongdoing?
Is it permissible to pay money to a person to obtain unofficial documents for working in the nursing profession in hospitals?
What is the ruling on working in Islamic financial institutions, and are their transactions - such as Tawarruq - permissible out of necessity or in general, and what is the preponderant opinion concerning them, given the difference in scholars' views?
Is the salary a pharmacist receives for registering her name as a manager of a pharmacy, without actually working in it, permissible or impermissible (halal or haram)? And if it is impermissible, must she give away what she has spent from it?
What is the ruling on a worker working for a person whose establishment was founded with usurious money, and is the money he earns unlawful?
Is working on data entry and follow-up at the Egyptian Insurance Pool, which reviews construction works and receives fees from insurance companies, permissible or impermissible?
What is the ruling on working in the design or supervision of a bank or a hotel, where it can be used for permissible and impermissible matters, by analogy with the ruling on prohibiting work in the design or supervision of a casino?
What is the ruling on working as a pharmaceutical sales representative for a company that requires achieving targeted profits, knowing that most doctors stipulate receiving a percentage of the profit in exchange for prescribing the medications I promote, and do I bear sin for that?
Is considering the increase in the value of the payment of expenses advanced by the installment company as usury (Riba)?
Is working for a company that facilitates a customer's purchase of products by paying the full price to the original producer and allowing the customer to pay in installments without any increase, and imposes a fixed, symbolic late payment penalty for delayed payment that goes entirely to charities without entering the company's accounts, permissible or impermissible?
Is it permissible to conceal rare medicines from some people and sell them to others exclusively, or to refuse to sell an available medicine to those who request it for commercial or other reasons? Is it permissible to reserve large quantities of a specific medicine for a regular customer? And are the work and salary in such pharmacies lawful?
What is the wife's role towards a husband who works in a usurious bank in the guarantees department? What should she do regarding the money he brings home? And what is better for her: to seek a job to cover household expenses or to care for her family and be patient?
Is money earned from feigning mental illness to escape societal obligations and work in the West considered unlawful (haram) wealth, or is it a duty to be free from these conflicting obligations?
What is the ruling on working in the Central Bank in the departments of banking supervision, treasury, or accounting, and what is the ruling on auditing firms when they audit companies that deal with usury?
Is it permissible to work for an advertising company that requires communication with foreign countries to present internet offers, given the presence of intermingling between men and women in the work environment?
Is money earned from working as a sound engineer in the Ministry of Culture, which includes permissible and impermissible tasks, considered halal or haram, and must one dispose of it, and how does one repent from this mixed money?
Is it permissible for me to market cars displayed in the showroom of a person whose money is illicit due to fraud, knowing that I do not wish to market his company but rather the cars offered for sale?
What is the ruling on working in medical laboratories that give percentages to doctors in exchange for sending patients, and where there is mixing between men and women?
What is the ruling on working in the "Youth Employment" program, which is affiliated with usurious banks, knowing that there is no other source of livelihood, and is it permissible for a friend to work with him in the same job, as he is in need of it?
What is the ruling on working for a school monitoring applications company that allows payment in installments through another company that imposes late fees?
What is the ruling on working as an administrative employee in a company that produces electronic cigarettes, or in other projects affiliated with it, if the original capital for these projects comes from the profits of the electronic cigarette company?
What is the ruling on working in an Arab stock exchange whose tasks include issuing sales and purchase invoices?
Is it permissible to work as a network engineer for a company that provides hosting and data storage services (both permissible and impermissible), knowing that the nature of my work is technical and I have no relation to the content of the stored data, and that the parent company has a partnership in a pornographic website? And is it permissible to work there to gain experience in order to return to my home country?
What is the ruling on a niqabi woman working in a company with a limited number of employees, and her remaining alone with the manager or one of her colleagues, due to her need for money? And is there sin upon her for that, and how can she repent from it?