The Creed of Compassion-Islamic Teachings & Answering Doctrinal Misconceptions

Issue No. 2421- People’s short term and long term deposits with banks and the interest which is given to them by the banks will be halal provided that it has been in accordance with the Islamic criteria and through Islamic contracts and agreements e.g. Muzaribah, partnership etc., and that the depositor should be sure or should consider it highly probable that, as an agent of the client, the bank carries out these agreements in an Islamic manner. However, if he is sure that these are only formal procedures and it is only on paper, that interest is haraam.

Issue No. 2308- If a person specifies a property for endowment, but regrets or dies before uttering the formula or before placing it at the disposal of the devotees, the endowment does not take place.

Issue No. 2347- One cannot will more than 1/3 of his property, unless the heirs give consent to it, irrespective of whether this permission is before his death or after it, and the heirs cannot, as an obligatory precaution, withdraw their permission whether they have given it before his death or after.

Issue No. 2249- If a fish falls out of water or a wave throws it out, or remains on the dry ground when the tide falls and it dies, it is haram. However, if it is caught by hand or by some other means before it dies, it will be halal if it dies later.

Issue No. 2216- The dead body of a haram-meat animal whose blood does not gush, like a snake, is ṭāhir but does not become halal by slaughtering.

Issue No. 2250- It is not necessary for a person catching a fish to be Muslim or to utter the name of Allah while catching it. However, it should be known that it has been caught alive from water or died after it has been trapped in the net.

Issue No.2417- If the silence of the scholars or others leads to strengthening or confirmation of the oppressor or causes him to be encouraged towards committing haram acts, it is obligatory upon them to express the truth and to denounce the falsehood, though it may not yield an immediate effect.

Issue No. 2235- If two persons jointly hunt an animal while one of them is a Muslim and the other one is an unbeliever, or one of them utters the name of Allah, and the other one does not do so intentionally, the meat of that animal will be haram, as an obligatory precaution.

Issue No. 2212- If a halal meat animal is slaughtered in the manner which will be described later, irrespective of whether it is a wild animal or a domestic one, its meat becomes halal to eat. However, the meat of an animal which is penetrated by a human being, and even the meat of its baby is haram. Similarly, the meat of a faeces-eating animal is haram except for when it is fed with ṭāhir food in accordance with the rules prescribed in sharia and becomes ṭāhir.

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.1936- As we said earlier, the executor can leave the task incomplete. However, if his failure to complete the task causes harm to the person who appointed him, he should complete it, and if he does not do so, he is responsible. For example, if a person tells the surgeon, “If you operate on my eye, I will give you this much money”, and he starts the operation yet suddenly he chooses to not complete the operation and this may harm the eye in this case he has no right to demand his fees from the employer, and he will also be responsible for the loss and the damage.

Issue No. 2213- If a wild animal like deer, wild goat and partridge, etc. whose meat is halal to eat and a domestic halal-meat animal which became wild later (e.g., a cow or a camel which runs away and becomes wild) is hunted with some weapons in accordance with the order which will be mentioned later, it is halal. However, a domestic halal-meat animal or a tamed wild animal whose meat is halal to eat does not become halal by hunting.