Begging, boycotting products and bribes : [Israeli products and bribe involved sales]

السؤال

Assalamu Alaykum, My name is Ahmed and I am from Sri Lanka. We recently started an “IT Solutions”(Deploying Antivirus, Firewall) company and I am having some concerns regarding the business model we practice here with conventional banks, bribe involved sales and promoting Israel products(Some firewalls are from Israel). First I point out how our business works here, and please help me with my questions. Below is the business flow to understand the structure better. . Principle-Software or hardware manufacturer (e. g. : Microsoft, Cisco) . Distributor-Represent of principle for local territory. Only authorized person to bring down the product for their respective territories. . Reseller-This is where our company falls into. We purchase from distributor and sell to customer. . Customer-The last person / company who users the solution. . For a principle to sell a product to end customer they have to go through distributor > reseller > and customer. We, as reseller when we talk to customers regarding a solution they often ask for bribe even though we don’t promote or talk about bribe. Also there are instances where distributor negotiates the bribe and they give the bribe or ask us to give a bribe to the customer. Below is our sales funneled from the beginning up to now and we see most of the sales have either banks or bribe involved. Customer Code, Conventional Bank / Finance / Investments, Company bribe, Israel Products and Normal Sale None of these bribes were negotiated by us but still we have been asked to give it to the customer by distributor. 1. Could you please tell me if this is considered Halal or Haram ? a. Dealing with conventional banks / investments / finance companies where their total business is with Riba ? b. Bribing to close deals ? c. Selling or promoting products coming right from Tel Aviv ? 2. If I start a new company as a distributor I can avoid negotiating bribe and selling directly to banks. But I am sure I cannot control my resellers selling to banks and initially to promote the product I will have to directly work with customers where they might ask for bribe just like the chart I have given you. Will this be a better solution in the long run ? Also please note that I am from a country where Muslims are minority. Jazakkallah

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تاريخ النشر

2012-10-20

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العلوم المالية و المحاسبية
الدراسات الإسلامية

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• الفقه الإسلامي
• التسول
• العقوبات الاقتصادية
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لغة النص

الإنجليزية

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BIM-733980

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• MLA
• AMA