Islamic Studies and Arabic Language

Question: Dear Dr. Monzer Kahf,Firstly, I would like to apologize for interrupting your work / time with this email. I am Saad, a mechanical engineer and am currently in the final semester of executive MBA (EMBA) out-campus program at one of ....

Subjects: Credit cards; Islamic Banks; Islamic jurisprudence

Question: If a Muslim needs to claim on their car insurance policy, can they benefit from the entire amount of money, or only that amount which equals premiums paid to date ?.

Subjects: Insurance; Insurance companies; Islamic jurisprudence; Money; Vehicles

Question: Br. Monzer,Assalamu Alaikum,I hope you are doing well. I was doing my last will and testament using the form provided by ISNA and I noticed that you put together the Schedule A of the Will. I had a question that ....

Subjects: Dividends; Inheritance; Islamic jurisprudence

Question: Asalam alaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuhu. I am Batanda, a Muslim who has just completed his A-levels in Uganda, East Africa. I have a dream of attaining a bachelor in actuarial science but I don’t know how it is ruled in Islam. ....

By: Swishchuk, Anatoliy; Islam, M. Shafiqul; Xia, Aihua. International Journal of Stochastic Analysis. No. 2010 (2010), pp.1-21, 21 p.

Question: السلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته...الفاضل الدكتور/ منذر ،،،تحية طيبة و بعد ،،،أرجو من سيادتكم التفضل بموافاتي عن مدى مطابقة هذا القرض للشريعة، و هل آخذه أم لا، و إذا كان هنالك أي توضيحات أخرى حول هذا القرض أرجو إفادتي بها.و ....

Subjects: Bank loans; Contracts; Islamic Banks; Islamic jurisprudence; Loans

Question: [Question One] :Dear Sir,Are paid to click and pay per view sites Haram ? Is it permissible to rent referrals ? Can a person rent referrals on such sites ? Are they Halal or Haram ?[Question Two] :Dear Sir,Thank you ....

Question: Dear Dr MonzerAssalamu Alaykum Wa Rahmatu Allahi Wa Barakatuh.I have read your website pertaining Riba and housing loans. I am residing in Singapore and there is no Islamic financing for housing loans in Singapore. I have the need to buy ....

Subjects: Financing; Housing; Loans

Donor award: Islamic Financial Services Board (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia)

Subjects: Interdependence; Islamic jurisprudence; Financial institutions; Financial statements; Management

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Subjects: Islamic jurisprudence; Labour; Wages

Question: As-Salamu 'Alaikum, dear scholar, often times, our dependents face financial crisis when the bread earner got seriously sick, dies, or bankrupts. Being a responsible husband / father, we take out one or more insurance / investment polices to secure the ....

Subjects: Financial planning; Insurance; Islamic jurisprudence

Question: [Question one] :I and my Fiancé have a few questions involving Riba and hope that you can help.1) In our country, a portion of our monthly salary is deducted to be put into the central provident fund which does accumulate ....

Subjects: Islamic jurisprudence; Savings

Question: [Question one] :Aslamo Alaykum Dr. Kahf,My name is Rasha. I work as an intern in a microfinance institution in the USA that lens capital to micro entrepreneurs. I proposed to the management to establish a free interest rate loan program ....

Subjects: Islamic jurisprudence; Microfinance

Question: هذا سؤال لشخص في المسجد أنقله لفضيلتكأملك شركة شحن و في كثير من الأحيان الشركات التي نتعامل معها لا تدفع فوريا و تؤجل الدفع .السؤال : 1-هل إذا استأجرت شركة لجمع مستحقات شركتي من العملاء مقابل 10 أو 15 % ....

Subjects: Corporations; Islamic jurisprudence; Rent

Question: Dear Amo Monzer,Assalamu Alykum !In Sha Allah you are well and in the best of conditions !Since you are a Qatari resident at the moment, congratulations on winning the competition for hosting the world cup (only if you approved of ....

Question: Are Muslims allowed to take interest money from the bank and use it to pay their own taxes or insurance premiums ?.

Subjects: Banks; Money; Muslims; Taxes; Usury

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Subjects: Banks; Interest; Islamic jurisprudence; Poor; Usury

Donor award: Mashreq al-Islami (Dubai, United Arab Emirates). Sharia'h Supervisory Board

Subjects: Hedge (Finance); Islamic jurisprudence

Donor award: Mashreq al-Islami (Dubai, United Arab Emirates). Sharia'h Supervisory Board

Subjects: Management; Sales

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Subjects: Alms tax

Question: Dear Dr. KahfAssalamu Alaikum Wa Rahmatullah.In my country, Bangladesh, some people are making up a controversy regarding the Islamic inheritance law. They say that the Inheritance Law, as described in Surah Nisaa, is mathematically flawed (if you divide as prescribed, ....

Subjects: Heirs

By: Kanakri, Mahmud Ali; Ionescu, Violeta. Jordan Journal of Modern Languages and Literature. Vol. 2, no. 2 (Nov. 2010), pp.179-194, 16 p.

Subjects: Jordan; Bilingualism

By: Rabadi, N. J.; Awdah, Akram. Jordan Journal of Modern Languages and Literature. Vol. 2, no. 2 (Nov. 2010), pp.163-177, 15 p.

Subjects: Education; Learning; French language

By: Zayid, Safa. Jordan Journal of Modern Languages and Literature. Vol. 2, no. 2 (Nov. 2010), pp.151-162, 12 p.

Subjects: Education; Learning; French language

By: al-Nasir, Narjis. Jordan Journal of Modern Languages and Literature. Vol. 2, no. 2 (Nov. 2010), pp.131-149, 19 p.

Subjects: Education; Learning; French language

By: Rabadi, Izabil Birnard. Jordan Journal of Modern Languages and Literature. Vol. 2, no. 2 (Nov. 2010), pp.103-130, 28 p.

Subjects: Twentieth century; France; Literature

Question: Salam,This is Adham, I read about your background and couple people recommended you to me. I have question regarding my new job I just want to know if what I am doing is Haram or not ? I just started ....

Subjects: Insurance companies; Islamic jurisprudence; Labour; Life insurance; Wages

Question: Salam,This is Adham, I read about your background and couple people recommended you to me. I have question regarding my new job I just want to know if what I am doing is haram or not ? I just started ....

Question: [Question One]Hello Dr. Kahf,I have been searching for an answer to this for a long time now, I already know piracy is Haram and I have stopped it several months ago, but I am required to use Microsoft office and ....

Subjects: Economic sanctions; Islamic jurisprudence; Israel; Software piracy

Donor award: Meezan Bank (Karachi, Pakistan)

Subjects: Bank deposits; Islamic Banks; Islamic jurisprudence; Speculation

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Subjects: Bank deposits; Meezan Bank; Pakistan; Products; Provisions of sharia

Question: Assalam 'Alaykum Wrahmatullah respected Shaikh,May Allah SWT have mercy on you and your family ?Forgive me for taking your time Shaikh I have two questions if you may plz answer them InSha’Allah.Firstly, I cooked a lot of meat for a ....

Subjects: Bank accounts; Usury

By: al-Ameen, Moshaddique; Islam, S. M. Riazul; Kwak, Kyungsup. International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks. No. 2010 (2010), pp.1-16, 16 p.

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Subjects: Advertising; Fraud; Income

By: Dasuqi, Ashraf Wajdi. مؤتمر الدوحة الدولي للمال الإسلامي (1 : 2010 : الدوحة، قطر) . pp.1-30, 30 p.

Subjects: Banks; Financing; Islam; Islamic jurisprudence; Social responsibility

By: Uwais, Ibrahim Muhammad. مؤتمر الدوحة الدولي للمال الإسلامي (1 : 2010 : الدوحة، قطر) . pp.1-12, 12 p.

Subjects: Banks; Conferences; Financing; Islam; Western world

By: Ababinah, Talib Ibrahim; Bani Abd al-Rahman, Abd Allah Ahmad. Al-Manarah For Research and Studies. Vol. 16, no. 5 (2010), pp.17-38, 22 p.

Subjects: Education; Jordan; Learning; Second language learning; Secondary education

By: al-Khashshab, Muyassar Qasim. College of Basic Education Researches Journal. Vol. 9, no. 4 (Oct. 2010), pp.608-617, 10 p.

By: Salih, Amir Sulayman. College of Basic Education Researches Journal. Vol. 9, no. 4 (Oct. 2010), pp.589-607, 19 p.

By: Hammud, Ziyad Fadil. College of Basic Education Researches Journal. Vol. 9, no. 4 (Oct. 2010), pp.564-588, 25 p.

Subjects: Egypt; Twentieth century; Arab world; Fiction

By: Abu Jarad, Hasan Ali. Journal of al-Quds Open University for Research and Studies. No. 21 (Oct. 2010), pp.9-26, 18 p.

Subjects: Dialects; Arabic language; Phonetics

Donor award: Association des maires de France

Subjects: Banks; Financial markets; Islamic Banks; Islamic jurisprudence; Law

Question: Assalamu AlaykumHope you are doing well.Would you have a sample of how this would be completed for a joint will ? Also, can this document be used as an official Will or do we still need to obtain legal services ....

Subjects: Inheritance; Islamic jurisprudence; Wills

Question: Aslam Alaykum.Dear Dr. Monzer,I am doing research on Islamic Waqf on the East African Island of Zanzibar.Zanzibar was ruled by Arabs and later become a British protectorate in 1890. Consequently, the British transformed the traditional Waqf practice in the Island. ....

Subjects: Islamic jurisprudence; Waqf

By: Islam, Tahmina; Parmar, Dipak N.; Kallenberg, C. G. M.…[et al.]. Case Reports in Medicine. No. 2010 (2010), pp.1-2, 2 p.

Donor award: International Islamic Liquidity Management Corporation (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia)

Subjects: Banks; Islamic jurisprudence; Malaysia; Payments; Stocks

Question: Assalamo Alaykum Dr. MonzerHope all is well In Sha AllahWe look forward to meeting you during your visit to Cairo next month In Sha AllahThe date suggested for a visit and lecture / seminar at on Islam is Sunday 14 ....

Subjects: Animal resources; Islamic jurisprudence; Sacrifices; Turkey

Question: Assalamu Alaikum Dr. Kahf,I attended a few of your sessions last year in Orange County and wanted to thank you again for the very informative seminars. I have a question regarding a possible employment opportunity at a hedge fund as ....

Question: Salaam,Hope my mail meets you in the best of Iman.Pls assist me with clarification on an issue if Allah has bestowed you with knowledge on it.I actually came across a trader (non-Muslim) who requested that I give him N 500,000 ....

Subjects: Capital; Financing; Profits

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Subjects: Income; Islamic jurisprudence; Money; Public utilities; Purchasing