“If a person was lost for days in the thick forest without eating and may die, could he consume a pig due to desperation (dharurat)?”

Bribe is wealth earned by accomplishing a task for a party that should have been done without any compensation (whether to bring benefit to the

“Ustaz, I have tried to seek financing from Islamic banks but they rejected it. Would it be sinful to get a riba-based financing from a

Signs of the collapse of the world financial system have emerged, causing great panic to people all over the world. Many governments called upon economists

All Muslims are duty-bound to fast during the whole month of Ramadhan based on the evidence from the Qur’an in Surah al-Baqarah, verses 183 and

One must bear in mind that the prohibition of interest in Islam does not mean that savings will not be rewarded. It also does not

One must refrain from making a direct comparison between Islamic banking and conventional banking (apple to apple comparison). This is because they are extremely different

Allah s.w.t. prohibits Muslims from consuming property without due rights (bathil). The Prophet s.a.w. also elaborates the meaning of ‘bathil’ with the prohibition of gharar. According to scholars, gharar

One critical aspect in particular highlighted : • The high profit rate charged by Islamic Bank for their financing product as compared to the interest

Even if the moral law has been strictly observed in every step of the process of acquiring wealth, our wealth still needs justification on another