QUESTION: What to do if a female manager calls a man to her room to assign him some tasks and entering her room submit his work? this is impossible to avoid in his country, should he be jobless because khalwa cannot be avoided?

Halal/Haram Matters, Jobs
23 May

ANSWER: He must disclose to her his Islamic beliefs and keep the door of the room open.

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QUESTION: Many non muslims in India look out for houses constructed according to `vastu shastra’ before purchasing. During selling i don’t know i can come accross such customers as well. Am I permitted to construct houses according to vastu shastra even though I don’t believe in it ? Vastu is a hindu belief

Halal/Haram Matters, Religions, Shirk and its different forms
22 May

ANSWER: No, this is totally prohibited! Why don’t you include a small temple inside the houses as well??

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QUESTION: I live in a hostel. The hostel staff prohibited me to eat non-vegetarian food because of a religion called Jainism. As a Muslim, Should I obey them? And am I sinful if I won’t obey them?

Halal/Haram Matters
21 May

ANSWER: If they allowed you to live in their hostel providing you follow their regulations and you had agreed to that, you must honor your word and commitment. 

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QUESTION: Nowadays, supermarkets and retail stores (such as clothing stores) offer a service where customers earn points when they make purchases. After shopping a few times and accumulating enough points, these points can be redeemed for a discount on future purchases. Is this process similar to earning interest, and can using these points be considered haram?

Halal/Haram Matters
14 May

ANSWER: No problem in redeeming this & its not interest.

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QUESTION: Is it permissible to work at a opticians where the job could involve speaking to female customers/colleagues aswell as assisting and conducting eye tests on females, in addition where the job could involve helping female customers choose glasses that are ‘designer’ and meant to look nice/fashionable aswell as selling these glasses to them, which could be unavoidable

Halal/Haram Matters, Jobs
14 May

ANSWER: This is permissible but you shouldn’t assist them in choosing what is beautiful for them and suites their faces. Let them do that by themselves. 

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QUESTION: When I buy meat and chicken from the butchers, and before I wash the meat, I notice that the meat still has blood everywhere. Is this meat blood impure, if it goes on my clothes will my clothes become impure?

Halal/Haram Matters, Slaughtering
14 May

ANSWER: The blood that remains in the animal after slaughtering is halal and is not najis. What’s forbidden is the blood that comes out when you slaughter the animal. 

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QUESTION: Is blood of chicken, mutton and beef that splashes while cleaning najis ?

Halal/Haram Matters, Slaughtering
14 May

ANSWER: No

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QUESTION: Is pornography a major sin or minor sin I know we should not look at the size of sin but I really want to know please tell me if it is a minor or major sin

Halal/Haram Matters, Masturbation, Sins
11 May

ANSWER: When you ask about the size of the sin, this means that you want to know so that you would go ahead and do it and this means that you don’t care that Allah is watching what you watch and hear what you hear!  Such people shouldn’t care whether it is a major sin […]

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QUESTION: Can I use code of combined name of my own and of someone with whom I was having haram relationship from which I repented and decided to wait for him to set password in my phone

Halal/Haram Matters, Pre-Marital Relations
08 May

ANSWER: You should not do this as this would remind you of him & the haram relationship and satan would use this to make you fall back into haram in your weak moments

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QUESTION: If I get a caretaker job and one of my roles is to take elderly out, if I take them somewhere like a cinema with money that it is not mine is that income earned haram?

Halal/Haram Matters, Jobs
07 May

ANSWER: Taking them to cinema is prohibited and the income is haram.

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