Working Around the Impermissible
460 questions
Is working at a men's massage center that offers a massage booking service with a female trainer considered unlawful (haram)?
What is the ruling on working as an accountant in a company that deals with usury, while trying to avoid usurious transactions as much as possible, and is it obligatory to leave the job without finding an alternative?
Is working for a company that sells household appliances, which includes selling sex toys, permissible or forbidden?
What is the ruling on working in a job, the salary earned from it, and the possessions bought with this salary, if the father sought to obtain it through favoritism (wasta) without the son's knowledge, even though the son succeeded in all the tests?
Is working in the bank transfers department of a usurious bank, which specializes in analyzing transfer data to avoid errors and risks, Islamically permissible? Is the money earned from it halal? Should one leave it immediately or upon finding another job?
Is working in a non-Islamic bank to market credit cards permissible or forbidden?
Is it permissible for me to work for an illiterate man who wants me to manage his electronic investments – knowing their impermissibility – in exchange for a fixed wage, and regardless of whether the profit is lawful or unlawful?
What is the ruling on working in a factory that produces yeast used in the alcoholic beverage industry, given the absence of an alternative and the fear of losing residency and citizenship?
What is the ruling on working in computer programming for an IVF hospital in Western countries?
What is the ruling on working for a software company that undertakes a project for insurance companies, knowing that the company refuses to work on impermissible projects and claims that Dar Al-Iftaa has permitted it, and that the employee is bound by a contract that obliges him to a specific period before resignation, and is it permissible for him to dispose of his salary during this period?
What is the ruling on working for an application that opens and closes e-cigarettes and prohibits their use by those under legal age, and benefits the company in verifying original products? And what is the ruling on working for the same company on other applications that share components with the e-cigarette application but are for therapeutic purposes?
Is working as a programmer for an application - such as YouTube - permissible or impermissible, given that it displays everything the user requests, whether it be Qur’an or songs?
Is working in the sale of clothes and shoes displayed on foreign models via Facebook, and answering customer inquiries and reserving orders—knowing that the customers are mostly non-Muslim women and their use of the clothes is unknown—permissible, and what is the ruling on the money earned from it?
Must designs created using a pirated Photoshop be deleted and re-uploaded after using a genuine Photoshop?
What is the ruling on subscribing to the Google AdSense advertising program, given the presence of filtering for websites that violate Sharia and the possibility of some undesirable ads appearing due to the inability to fully control them, and is the money earned from it lawful?
What is the ruling on working as an electrical engineer in the establishment of a restaurant that includes a section dedicated to serving alcoholic beverages, and is expiation obligatory after 80% of the work has been completed?
What is the ruling on working as a general manager in a company that deals with usury, deems it lawful to wrongfully consume people's wealth, where the employee is alone with the female manager who is a stranger to him, given the low income and difficulty in finding another job, and is it permissible to take some of its money under the pretext that it was stolen from public funds?
What is the ruling on money acquired from the state grant for the unemployed, if the beneficiary did not commit to working for the company with which he contracted for the sake of this grant, but rather sought another job?
Is it permissible to work for a commercial company that deducts a portion of an employee's salary for a savings fund and adds 10% annual interest to it after the employee reaches the age of sixty?
What is the ruling on developing a program that includes displaying information and products related to cannabis (medical and non-medical), organizing the work of companies that produce it, facilitating their compliance with laws, displaying product certificates, monitoring rewards for buyers, organizing warehouses, and training employees? Does the ruling differ if the programmer was not aware of its nature beforehand? What is the ruling on continuing with it due to legal obligation? And what is the ruling on working with a company that develops such programs?
Is it permissible to continue working with the usurious savings books at the Egyptian Post Office given the administrative intransigence that prevents transferring out of them?
What is the ruling on working in a food distribution warehouse that includes pork, and is this work permissible in Sharia?
What is the ruling on working with an online company that requires a financial guarantee to be returned after one year, and the amount of daily income depends on the value of this guarantee?
What is the ruling on obtaining a scholarship by defrauding the GPA requirements, and benefiting from its money, and the money received from the salary after graduation? And what should be done about that?