Jobs

QUESTION: Is my income from working at big 4/ professional services firms’ halal? As they have a mix of halal and haram activities and clients. Like is it okay if I work in IT or consulting department and avoid banks as clients?

Jobs, Riba

09 Sep

ANSWER: I don’t know what the line of such firms is! If they are a financial group where the majority of their work deals with riba and consultations and auditing, it is not permissible to work there as IT or any other position.

QUESTION: If a person becomes rich through haram earnings, is this considered rizq from Allah?

Divine Will and Decree, Jobs

08 Sep

ANSWER: Yes, as there is only one Razzaq in this world and it is Allah. He grants halal rizq and reward for it and also haram rizq and punishes on it.

QUESTION: I work for a company. My job is to convince people to invest in shares. There are lots of different shares, halal and haram. I let them choose a few of these shares. I encourage them to invest in halal shares but as i am in the west, they sometimes choose haram ones. And after they invest, i get money from my company. And i dont get money depending which share. Always same amount.Is it halal?

Jobs, Riba

06 Sep

ANSWER: The money in which you facilitate and collaborate with them in sin is haram. You should not work in such a field as the vast majority of companies work with riba financing and depositing.

QUESTION: I work in a school, I am in full hijab (not niqab and I do not wear makeup). I spend 90% of my time with children and the other time is made up of meetings and sometimes teachers may enter my office if the have concern for a student. I do not initiate conversation with any male staff, at most I may say good morning or return a good morning or Salaam. My family is dependent Is my work halaal?

Halal/Haram Matters, Jobs

05 Sep

ANSWER: If you teach a halal subject and teach only girls or boys under the age of 10 and do not free mix with men and are abiding by the proper Islamic hijab then your job is halal.

QUESTION: I’m a travel agent from Kashmir India. I give packages and make arrangements of accommodation and transportation for the clients . Most of the times, we provide them transportation service from airport to airport. However, in some rare cases, some clients ask to drop them at Katra where there they have some hindu temple. Is the income that I generate from this transportation halal?

Halal/Haram Matters, Jobs, Religions

28 Aug

ANSWER: If this (katra) is a city and have other tourist places then no problem. But if you are certain that they want to go there to worship their false gods and they tell you about it, this is not permissible.

QUESTION: Can i design birthday gift pack for others as this is my business?

Halal/Haram Matters, Jobs

05 Aug

ANSWER: This is not permissible.

QUESTION: I work for a grocery based delivery, where I purchase groceries and deliver for people, so i get many receipts at the end of the day. There is an app that gives rewards for uploading the receipts and later that reward can be converted into gift cards. Is the gift cards/rewards halal for me if I use those receipts?

Halal/Haram Matters, Jobs

03 Aug

ANSWER: You are not allowed to take such rewards as you are not the owner of it.

QUESTION: I’m a designer, I do thumbnails for YouTube creators, but most of them use background music in their videos , my part is just to design the the thumbnail I don’t edit their videos, is this assisting in sin since thumbnail plays a key role in viewers clicking the video and they will watch the video with background music

Jobs, Sins, Social Media

22 Jul

ANSWER: This is totally prohibited, you’re definitely sinful for assisting them in sins and your income is haram

QUESTION: Is it halal to work in a company like youtube where there are both halal and haram contents. I am getting an opportunity to work as a customer support specialist for a video hosting platform company (Name-Vimeo)similar to youtube. They will also host music videos, movies, women without hijab just like youtube. I don’t know what to do. Please guide me Sheikh

Jobs, Social Media

16 Jul

ANSWER: This is not permissible as the majority of their income is haram and it is collaborating with them on haram

QUESTION: I saw ur video but i have a doubt,if a person returns to work around 5 minutes late regularly after LUNCH BREAK but eventually he does his work properly, so will this too fall in the category of working less than what he’s supposed to and should he return the money of these 5 min to the company OR is this fine and negligible?

Jobs

08 Jul

ANSWER: This is negligible which companies don’t often mind To be on the safe side, you can work 5 minutes extra

More..