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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 […]

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

QUESTION: I am a tutor and I take payment after a month is completed so if a student comes to study for tution on 1 of the month and in this month he does not come for 6 days so should I taken fees on 1 on next month or on 6

Jobs

28 Jan

ANSWER: If the agreement is that you are paid per class, you should charge them for 6 classes only. But if the agreement is to be paid on monthly basis and they skip classes, you should be paid at the end of the month regardless of the number of classes they had attended.

QUESTION: I am a Data Scientist, i have a question that, If I am working in a company which works in halal field but wants me to analyse data on interest(riba). What should I do.

Jobs, Riba

13 Jan

ANSWER: This is totally prohibited as its a major sin and Allah has waged a war against people who deal with riba!

QUESTION: In Canada when we file income taxes, the government will give us money back. Is this money permissible for me to use?

Halal/Haram Matters, Jobs

04 Jan

ANSWER: Yes

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