QUESTION: So in the country i live, it rains a lot and in construction business, they put a black material on the walls and floor in buildings so rain water cant enter. If i am involved in this job and i have to use this material in a bank building, is this haram?

Halal/Haram Matters, Jobs
04 Jun

ANSWER: It is not permissible for you to assist or work for a conventional bank

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QUESTION: I live in Saudi Arabia and plan to start a visa business. For example, a friend sells a visa for 2000 SAR, and I resell it for 3000 SAR. Both the friend and the buyer know I’m making a profit. Is this profit halal?

Jobs
25 May

ANSWER: This is illegal and it is haram money

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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: My father refuses to work. And he refused for years, since his late 40s, though he had chances to work from home. He is asking me and my brother to work and help him keep the family. My brother who is 24 is at uni and I’m 21 and trying to get a career which will take a while. I feel lots of pressure and like he’s putting his burden on us. I don’t know how to act. Advice?

Fiqh of the family, Jobs
17 May

ANSWER: You are not obliged to take care of him and his family while wasting your life on that! Focus on your studies and your career and once you get married and settled, if you have any extra, you can contribute to take care of him and your mother only by providing them with the […]

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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: 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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QUESTION: The permissibility of a woman participating in online jobs that involve recording her voice to help train AI models. The task involves asking questions on various topics, and the recordings are then used by companies to improve their AI systems.

Jobs, Women clothing
05 May

ANSWER: If it involves softening the voice, this is totally prohibited

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QUESTION: I am an international student in london and I am not able to find halal jobs . I am about to run out of cash . I am in dire need of money . In this situation is it permissible to work in a place selling non halal meat .or do delivery. They might have pork or other non Halal meat

Halal/Haram Matters, Jobs
23 Apr

ANSWER: It’s not permissible to do haram work! If they sell pork, it is prohibited to work there. If they sell other meat without a halal certificate, this is permissible as it is a Christian country and the meat is halal until proven otherwise.

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QUESTION: I am jobless and staying with my father. He is forcing me to write down the names and phone numbers of people to whom he lends money. This involves riba (interest), which he justifies as a business practice. My mom has asked him to stop, but he is not doing so. He will not be convinced that it is a major sin. What should I do?

Fiqh of the family, Halal/Haram Matters, Jobs, Riba
15 Feb

ANSWER: You must not help him in any way in this haram business of his or you will share the same amount of curse he is getting from Allah for such a major sin

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QUESTION: I have removed clients with haram content from my list. Now, I have an opportunity to write scripts for a client’s YouTube videos. The scripts are halal, but the client earns through ads and uses background music, which I am not involved with. I will receive a 20% commission from the total ad revenue and new client sign-ups. Is my income halal?

Halal/Haram Matters, Jobs, Social Media, Sports, Entertainment and Music
10 Feb

ANSWER: No, its not halal as its collaboration and assisting in haram which Allah prohibited in the Quran.

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