Halal/Haram Matters

QUESTION: In our local area there is very common financing method called chits, group of people (usually a family) agree to pay a sum of money in installments to facitator, so each month when everyone pays to facilitors, the money received will be given to a random participant. Hence making a loan facility to poor. But the facilitators receive extra installment from everyone for his service. Is halal or har

22 Mar

ANSWER: If the facilitator is not participating in this chit fund and only managing it and taking fees as his service charges then no problem otherwise its not permissible.

QUESTION: I have a question regarding trading in the futures market. I know that they want a percentage and that is called riba and that is haram. But, recently I have come across a platform that doesn’t charge any fees. The platform is called Gate.io I think it is halal to trade futures in this platform because:

Halal/Haram Matters, Riba

21 Mar

ANSWER: In Islam, it is prohibited to sell what you don’t actually possess. You are bidding over a speculation of stocks that you don’t own! This is gambling and prohibited transaction. Some scholars say that one can buy it if the financing is less than 30%, but I couldn’t find any evidence on such an […]

QUESTION: When we buy second hand cooking pan from non muslim, we have to wash it. But even after washing several times with soap stains remain. In non stick pans these stains are from oil, fat or food cooked previously, right? So what is the ruling after washing so many times? Is the pan pure or impure? Can it be used for cooking?

Halal/Haram Matters, Religions

20 Mar

ANSWER: If their is no mass of such oily substances that can be removed and only stains remain, this is permissible to use.

QUESTION: If women go out of home they hv to wear abaya nd hide whole body. But what if someone comes to her house? Like husband’s friend, son’s friend, workers, landlord (for checking the house), etc. Do she have to wear complete abaya and hide her whole body in her house?

Halal/Haram Matters, Women clothing

20 Mar

ANSWER: Of course. First of all she must not come in front of non mahram men nor socialise with them.

QUESTION: Can husbands compliment other womens beauty whilst describing them, I.e when explaining a story about a women that he saw, or knows someone that is not his mahram, he says she is a beautiful women, or she was beautiful, or saying have you seen her recently she looks much prettier now etc

Halal/Haram Matters

19 Mar

ANSWER: Of course not!! Allah has ordered him to lower his gaze and not wander it around like this, let alone compliment non mahrams!

QUESTION: So if a restaurant like pizza h*t say we cross contaminate our cheese with ham but if i go ask them not to cross contaminate it and they agree can i eat the margherita pizza as they wont lie because some people havve allergies with meat

Halal/Haram Matters

13 Mar

ANSWER: Who are you trying to fool? Are you willing to believe a bunch of disbelievers who want to sell their products and willing to risk your Islam for few bites?

QUESTION: There is a very widely used social media platform, which can partly be used as a search engine. You can earn points by performing various actions on the site. the problem is, these points have a name and it is “karma”. I think you get more karma points for upvotes and less for downvotes. Is it permissible to use such a website or kufr ir haram?

Halal/Haram Matters

12 Mar

ANSWER: The name has no impact on its permissibility, what counts is if its a halal site and what you do is halal and according to islamic rulings or not.

QUESTION: What is the main evidence which says that it is not allowed to imitate animal sounds?

Halal/Haram Matters

11 Mar

ANSWER: All simulations to animals in the Quran or sunnah were blames worthy whether in movements or postures in salah or in sounds of donkeys and the likes. Never it was mentioned in a praiseworthy manner. Besides, whoever imitates a people, he is from among them.

QUESTION: Shiekh. Buying a bike for lease for a period of 1 year for 10000 dollars and after one year the bike will be returned and an amount of 8000 dollars will be returned to me.. is it permisible?

Halal/Haram Matters

10 Mar

ANSWER: This is not permissible as it involves two transactions in one! Either buy it and once you own it, there are no strings attached and the seller can buy it after a year with whatever price he wants or totally forget about it or you can lease it for one year for 2000 $ […]

QUESTION: Sheikh I wanted to know if cursing someone is a major sin because I saw that imam ad dhahabi put in he’s list of the major sins where he lists 70 major sins that he put in the list cursing and if not in which situation is this a major sin?

Halal/Haram Matters

08 Mar

ANSWER: This is a major sin as the prophet salla Allahu alaiku wa sallam made it similar to killing him.

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