What is the ruling about having shares in companies and banks’?
Category: Scholars
Selling trousers and under garments for non-Muslims
Is it permissible for a Muslim to sell trousers and under garments for non-Muslim women?
Having shares in the Saudi-American Bank
Advise us, may Allaah increase you in knowledge, about the ruling of having shares in the Saudi-American Bank. Is it ribaa, since it trades in interest and is based upon interest, as we know?
Having shares in the Islaamic Bank
And that which we have understood is that the bank in question does not trade in ribaa and that the money from the sale of the shares will be used in trading activities which are free from any dealings in interest.
Women engaging in trade
What is the ruling regarding a woman who trades (i.e. goes into business), whilst either in travel or residence?
Celebrating the year 2000 millennium and related issues
What is the Islaamic ruling on glorifying this occasion and celebrating it and exchanging congratulations for it either verbally or by exchanging cards and the like?
Advice to a daa’iyah (female caller to Islaam)
I hope to be a daa’iyah, so what is your advice to me?
Employee of a bank wishes to perform Hajj using his earnings
I am an employee at a bank, so is it permissible for me to perform Hajj from my earnings?
Made Hajj whilst pregnant
A woman performed the Hajj whilst she was pregnant. When she returned from the Hajj, her [unborn] child died. So, will she and her child be rewarded for that Hajj?
Made Hajj when I was ten years old
I performed Hajj when I was ten years old and, once again, when I was thirteen years old. So, do both of these Hajj’s constitute the obligatory Hajj?