QUESTION: If I work as a baker can I also make cakes for babyshowers and birthdays?

Halal/Haram Matters, Jobs
13 Jul

ANSWER: Baking cakes for birthdays and baby showers and other Haram events is not permissible.

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QUESTION: If I give my goods to a courier rider and he delivers goods but does not pray on Friday or listen to Khutbah on his journey and on his way back, and also when he returns goods to me he does not pray Jumuah or listen to the Khutbah, then will my earnings be haraam? (I have to register to a courier company and take partnership to avail their services)

Jobs, Prayer
23 Jun

ANSWER: If he is a kafir, this seems permissible but if he is Muslim, you shouldn’t be working at the time of Friday prayers. 

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QUESTION: My question is about the delay in my earnings. Alhamdulillah, i work as a freelancer, i got a job in a company where i work as a content writer hourly based. After first 5-6 days of Ramadan i got no work neither from company nor any individual project. I’m so worried please advice what to do

Jobs
25 May

ANSWER: Be patient and think positively of Allah and rizq will come your way as long as you are doing your best and looking.

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QUESTION: Is it wrong or not permissible in islam to do receptionist job?

Jobs
30 Mar

ANSWER: This is not permissible for women when they have to work in a mixed environment and interact with men like this.

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QUESTION: If a student is applying for trainee program in a conventional bank, the stipend he/she will get and benefits that bank is offering such as reimbursement for exam fees and study material costs, would all be considered as halal/haram??

Jobs, Riba
15 Mar

ANSWER: It’s totally prohibited and a major sin to work in any department of a conventional interest based bank and the income is totally haram, even if you work there only as a trainee. Interest money is riba which is one of the major sins in Islam for which Allah waged war against those who deal […]

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QUESTION: Is working as a filmmaker or videographer haram? (Using music, interacting with opposite gender, making videos with non muslim..)

Jobs, Sports, Entertainment and Music
06 Mar

ANSWER: This is not permissible at all and the income is haram. 

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QUESTION: Is it haram to work in a university for pup project with a non mahram women who has makeup and is comitting tabaruj

Halal/Haram Matters, Jobs
03 Mar

ANSWER: A man is the bread winner and he must work to earn. However, he must abide by the Islamic rulings of not being alone with a female and must lower his gaze and not socialize or flirt with such non mahrams. Are boys allowed to study at mixed universities knowing that in our country […]

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QUESTION: Shaykh, I am a student of knowledge and I want to become an engineer. Is this disliked? I fear I will have to study very hard and spend much time. I want to become a scholar and I want to refrain from studying worldy things. Is my mindset extreme or correct? I mean scholars like Bin Baaz, Al albani, and Fawzaan didn’t study worldly things (to my knowledge).

Jobs, Knowledge & Propagation
26 Feb

ANSWER: No problem in seeking both as men are the bread winners and a professional degree is required for this.

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QUESTION: Sheikh If a guy is a practicing Muslim and his behaviour is good too but his job his haram like works in bank..Is it okay to say yes to such marriage proposal?

Fiqh of Marriage, Jobs
25 Feb

ANSWER: This is not permissible.

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QUESTION: If a person working in a Shop,his friends aproch him personally (not from shop) for purchase some products,then he said a price and he go and buy from a all sale dealer and sell to his friend .is this dropship,he earned somany mony on this way what to do?(don’t know how much,and coustomers)

Halal/Haram Matters, Jobs
18 Jan

ANSWER: If he bought it first without any obligation on the customer and then sold it to the customer, this is permissible as the customer could have changed his mind and he would have been stuck with the product. But if he had sold it before buying it, this is similar to drop shipping as […]

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