"My father who was living in Jordan borrowed ( 15,000) from his brother in America in1987. At that time the 15,000 equaled JD4,500 Jordanian Dinars, and my father exchanged the dollars into Jordanian Dinar and used them. Now, 10 years later, he is able to return the money to his brother, but 15,000 equals about 10,000 Jordanian Dinars and not 4500... More
I am trying to research on Islamic Finance and how it works (or how it "should" work) in today's world of dominating western finance and Riba'. SPECIFIC TOPICS include: How a merger transaction between two companies would be implemented under Islamic Law? Also how would it differ between two Islamic countries ( it shouldn't, since there's only.. More
What's the Islamic ruling regarding a person who wants to buy a car with monthly installments? There is no other alternative and the payments are subject to interest rates.
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I trade in stocks. Please let me know if the following are halal or haram: 1. a margin account (an account that lets me borrow for a few hours, days or months to buy stocks. The money has to be repaid with a variable interest); 2. day trading (buying and selling the same stock in one day or over a short period of time)? 3. futures and commodities?.. More
Asalam Alikum. Thanks God for finding a precious and helpful guide for Islamic people, I am confused and I do not know what to do concerning my problem. I am an orphan since I was three years old, my father has been kidnapped in the Lebanese war in 1982 and we have never heard from him since and we think he is dead, he left a family of three members.. More
Referring to question No. 1354, if the one who died had made a will of paying 1/3 of his money to the charity, would the percentage of interest be considered a part of the 1/3 or do we have to pay the 1/3 and the percentage of usury?
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Can you please answer the following question:1. Somebody wants take a house on mortgage (which is Rahen in urdu) 2. He will pay Rupees: 80,000 to the owner of the house. As a guarantee, the owner will vacate the house, and give to the person who is paying the money. This is a gurantee for the money. The person paying will stay with his family in.. More
I would like to ask if someone received an inheritance from his/her relative whose earnings had some haram things like interests and he or she knows this, what is he or she supposed to do?
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I am a married man with two kids. I have a decent job but I cannot save enough to build a house for my family. Here in Tunis we don't have Islamic banks, so all banks that give credit for building house charge an interest rate. Does our religion give permission in such a situation to get credit from the bank? I have to note that I called the ex-Mufti.. More