The Creed of Compassion-Islamic Teachings & Answering Doctrinal Misconceptions

Issue No.1072- Omission or addition of foundational elements in recommended prayer (nāfilah) also invalidates it as an obligatory precaution.

Issue No.1788- The landlord may sell a property that has been leased out to another person; the lease contract is not rendered invalid and the lease holder is entitled to utilize the property during the period of lease. However, if the buyer does not know that the property has been leased out or has purchased it under the thought that the period of lease is short he can rescind the transaction when he realizes the case of the lease.

Issue No.1972- If the creditor sells the property which is mortgaged with the consent of the debtor, the mortgage becomes void and the sale proceeds will not be considered as mortgage like the property itself, unless the permission of the sale is given with this condition that the sale proceeds would be instead of that mortgage.

Issue No. 2228- If a camel’s head is cut instead of thrusting a knife into the depth of its neck or if a knife is thrust into the depth of the neck of a sheep or a cow as is done in the case of a camel, their meat will not be halal. However, if the animal is still alive after this act and it is immediately slaughtered according to the prescribed method by the sharia, its meat will be halal.

Issue No.1872- If a thing taken by a person on lease is lost, or becomes defective, and if he has not been negligent in looking after it nor extravagant in its use, he is not responsible. If, for example, a cloth given to a tailor is stolen, or destroyed in fire, and if he has not been negligent in looking after it, he is not responsible. However, if by mistake, or any other reason, he has destroyed or made it defective with his own hand, he is responsible. However, if the defect is in the item itself, for instance, the quality of the fabric is such that it will be ruined by ironing, in this case he is not responsible.

Issue No. 2425- There is no objection in bank or commercial drafts when a bank or a merchant takes some money from someone in a place and orders the bank or his agent in another place to pay him and he gets wages for the transfer of the money from the owner of the money. This transaction is halal, irrespective of whether the commission for the transfer is deducted from the transferred money or is taken separately from the owner. Similarly, if a bank or another institution gives some money to a person and orders that he should pay the money to the branch of the bank or to a particular person in another place, and if the bank or the institution charges some money as a commission for this transfer, there is no harm in it.

Issue No. 2427- There is no harm or problem in what the Qarz ul-Hasanah Funds (Boxes) usually get as commission and wages for rendering services like, maintaining and keeping the accounts of instalments, and such-likes. However, the obligatory precaution is that this amount should be in appropriate proportion to the services and expenses of the bank. Hence, one cannot take the interest or mark-up in the name of commission or wages for services. Qazul Hasanah Funds cannot lay down a condition for interest while giving a loan. For example, they cannot say that they will give a loan on the condition that the client should pay a work-wage. And if they are taking the wage, it should be something separate from the loan.

Issue No. 2426- If mortgage banks and others give a loan with interest on it and get something as its mortgage, both the loan and the mortgage are void and haraam. And the bank has no right to sell the mortgaged property in order to get its own dues. And if someone buys it he cannot possess it.

Issue No. 2424- There is no harm in receiving interest from foreign and non-Muslim banks. However, it is haraam to get it from Muslim Banks.

Issue No. 1676- If a poor person knows that it has not become obligatory on a particular person to pay zakāt, and takes something from him as zakāt, and it perishes while it is with him, he is responsible for it. However in case the poor person remains poor, the zakāt payer can adjust what he gave to the poor person against zakāt.

Issue No.1839- If a transaction is concluded with the capital of the partnership, and it transpires later that the partnership was invalid, yet, if all the partners approve that transaction, it will be in order, and whatever is gained belongs to all of them, and those who have been working for the partnership may collect the wages for their services at the usual rate.

Issue No. 2285- If one vows that he will observe fast on a particular day, the obligatory precaution is that he should not go on a journey on that day so that he can observe fast. However, if he travels on that day, it is obligatory to perform that fast as qaḍā later, and he should also offer kaffāra for it as an obligatory precaution.