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Leasing a car and applying for full coverage insurance
Assalamualikum, is it allowed to lease a car, because in order to lease one must have full insurance, is this allowed? 2- because of insurance the...
Life insurance
As salaamu alekum, I needed your help in getting a question answered. Is taking out a life insurance policy permissible for us as Muslims? There...
Working for an insurance company
Al-Salamu 'alaykum Shaykh, I got a job offer from insurance company as an independent sales agent. I am looking for whether, I can work in Insurance...
Distribution of wealth during one’s lifetime
DEAR MUFTI SAHEB: ASSALAAMU ALAIKUM WRWB, I HAVE BEEN APPROACHED BY FEW COMMUNITY MEMBERS TO GET FATWA FOR WEALTH DISTRIBUTION ISSUES AS FOLLOWS: ...
Giving money to someone to spend on their children
I gave money to my relative, who is poor, by saying that it is to buy sweets for his children. I did so because otherwise he will not accept the...
Is it permissible to give someone a housewarming gift?
As salaamu ’alaykum, Is it halal to give a family member a housewarming gift if they move to a new home? بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الجواب حامدا ومصليا...
Buying foreclosed homes
Assalam-o-Alaikum, Sir, I heard about a fatwa given by you that if a bank own a house we can mortgage that house and it would be permissible. Is...
Purchasing a house through an interest based loan
assalamalekum wa rehmatullahe wabrakathu I have a question for you I have a house that I have been leaving in for 13 years, when I got this house I...
A person passes away before completing house payments
If a person buys a house for someone and an agreement has been made that the latter will pay the former on monthly installments, if the former...
Anas ibn Malik reported:
The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, said:
مَنْ خَرَجَ فِي طَلَبِ الْعِلْمِ كَانَ فِي سَبِيلِ اللَّهِ حَتَّى يَرْجِعَ
Whoever goes out seeking knowledge is in the way of Allah until he returns.
(Sunan al-Tirmidhī 2647, Grade: Sahih)