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Inside the secret working group that helped push anti-trans laws across the country

Leaked emails give a glimpse of the religious-right networks behind transgender healthcare bans

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Le istituzioni italiane prestino attenzione alla fatwah annunciata dall'Ucoii

Le istituzioni italiane prestino attenzione alla fatwah annunciata dall’Ucoii

Ora l’Ucoii vuole vietare i matrimoni combinati con la Fatwah. ma attenti: mira a introdurre la Shari’a nel panorama giuridico italiano. (more…)

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#hbo #larrydavid #jewish #fatwah boys. (at Tel Aviv, Israel)

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Muslim Army Chaplain says it’s OK to Beat Your Wives

Muslim Army Chaplain says it’s OK to Beat Your Wives

Dr. Iqbal Al-Navdi is the Muslim Chaplain of the Canadian Army and an important Muslim leader here in North America. In fact, he is one of the very few in North America who have the authority to give a fatwah and is very well respected as professor of Shariah Law and jurisprudence.

Back in February of 2015, Dr. Navdi delivered a speech on the importance of the family in society and in Islam. Dr.…

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Islamic Finance - Is sending money abroad Halal?

As part of our brief to keep transfers transparent and users informed, we’ve invited Ibrahim Khan, editor of Islamic Finance Guru, to explain the Islamic law covering remitting services.

Have a read below – and keep an eye on this space for more Islamic-finance content in the near future. It’s good news!

Is Sending Money Abroad Halal?

As we hurtle towards a more and more globalised world, millions of us are now expats from our countries of birth. We moved abroad all those years ago due to the better financial opportunities offered, but now that we’re earning good money we want to transfer some of it back to our families in our homeland.

There are a plethora of money transfer websites now jockeying to offer you the best deal – and comparison sites such as TransferGuru can help you find it.

But is the process of international money transfer Islamically acceptable?

With international remittances being such an integral part of the economies of nations such as Pakistan, The Philippines, India, and Nigeria, it is important to clear this point up for the millions of Muslims reliant on this practice.

Getting Under the Bonnet

So let’s pick apart what actually happens in an international money transfer. There are broadly two structures in place:

The Old-Fashioned Slower Way: You give the money to the remittance firm in the UK, the remittance firm then sends it abroad via a UK bank to the Nigerian bank. The Nigerian bank then releases it to the remittance firm in Nigeria and they pay out your relative. This process can take a few days.

The Instantaneous Money Way: You send money to the remittance firm in the UK (either online or in person), the remittance firm in Nigeria receives the information and releases the money over to your family member there. At the end of the day the two remittance firms settle up on the day’s trade between them. This process takes seconds from the perspective of the customers.

Both of these structures are broadly Shariah-compliant. In both of these approaches all that is ultimately happening is a currency exchange and the payment of a set fee to the agent for handling the whole sending-over side of things – so both of these practices are non-controversially acceptable in all Islamic schools of thought.

In Islamic law you are allowed to exchange money for money as long as it is done simultaneously and according to the exchange rate. For example, if you’re transferring a £1 which is worth $1.50, then when two people exchange the two currencies, they should do so roughly according to that exchange rate.

So if you give £1 and get $2.50 back, that is going to raise some Islamic eyebrows for sure. Why? Because it looks like you’re smuggling in interest through the back door of currency exchange.

Don’t get me wrong, it is possible to make a profit on a currency exchange – what is not allowed is to rip someone off!

Which means that TransferGuru actually helps make the whole remittance industry more Shariah-compliant as they make sure the market is more transparent!

Areas of Concern

So the basic rule is that these transactions are Shariah-compliant. However, all is not milk and honey. There are in fact a number of areas where Shariah-compliance may be jeopardised.

For example, if you send money via a company that does not have a financial authorities licence in either the UK or your homeland, it may not be Islamically acceptable. What about those companies that say they’ll pay a cash advance to your relatives abroad and you can pay them later – for a fee? Or how about the companies that offer you a fixed exchange rate for a number of months – is that Islamically acceptable?

Each of these really deserves an article each – so watch this space. We’ll continue to break it down for you so that you can send your money back to your loved ones safe in the knowledge that you are not compromising on your Islamic beliefs.

Ibrahim Khan is editor of IslamicFinanceGuru, a blog that specialises in all things Islamic Finance

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Sheikh Ali Halabi said in a video distributed via social media that Jews can be killed during war only, and that killing them at other times is a betrayal.

A senior Jordanian Salafi sheikh has stirred controversy in the Muslim world in recent days after he issued a fatwa against killing Jews. Sheikh Ali Halabi said in a video distributed via social media that Jews can be killed during war only, and that killing them at other times is a betrayal. When asked by a student if it is permissible to kill Jews in Palestine, the sheikh answered: "Someone who protects you, gives you electricity and water, transfers you money and you work for him and take his money - would you betray him, even if he was a Jew?" According to the sheikh, killing is allowed during clashes or declared war, "But if you trust him and he trusts you, then it is forbidden to betray him. And therefore you are forbidden to murder him." The Salafi sheikh provided an example from the period of the British Mandate in Palestine, when a well-known Saudi sheikh issued a ruling that agreements which preserve rights and prevent bloodshed must be honored. Halabi stressed that there is a difference between emotional outlook and outlook based on Sha'aria law. When the sheikh was asked by a student about armed soldiers in the streets, he responded: "The same answer. Does a soldier holding a weapon in the street kill every Muslim he sees?" The student answered "No." Another student asked if it was correct that "they (IDF soldiers) only attack if they are first attacked?" The sheikh answered: "I don't live in Palestine, but that is what the brothers there tell us. That he who does not attack Jews is not attacked in return." Halabi said that he didn't want it to seem as if he was "defending the despised Jews. But this is the reality. Because if they would kill everyone they met, nobody would remain and the Palestinians would continue to escape to other countries in the world." The video that went viral on social media caused a stir in the Muslim world, with activists attacking the sheikh and distributing videos in which IDF soldiers are seen in the West Bank "executing Palestinians under the guise that they tried to stab soldiers." Halabi is one of the most well-known Salafi sheikhs in Jordan and he is the head of the Imam al-Albani religious studies center in Jordan.

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Oppressing the Non-Muslims???

The Shaykh mentions:

‘If a questioner asks: is the wealth of the non-Muslim who lives in the land of the Muslims permissible for us to take?

The answer is: that the wealth and blood of the non-Muslim who lives in the Muslim lands under contract, are not permissible for us to take, so much so that the Prophet -sallAllaahu alayhi wa sallam – said: ‘Whoever kills a non-Muslim who lives in the Muslim lands under contract will not smell the fragrance of Paradise.’ [Collected by Bukhari in Kitab al-Jizeeyah]

We ask Allaah for goodness.

By this we come to know the enmity, oppression and misguidance of those deceived ones, who transgress upon the wealth of the non-Muslims who have a contract with the Muslims. This is whether that non-Muslim is in your (Muslim country) or he has a contract with the Muslims, or that you are in his country.

Indeed we hear from some of those who live in the non-Muslims lands, who say: there is no problem with spoiling the wealth of these non-Muslims, so you find them destroying street lights, shops and cars, and this is impermissible for them – SubhanAllaah – these people have embraced you, you have a contract with them, they have not agreed to a contract with your laws, and with that you deceive them. This is the worst type of defamation of Islaam and criticism of Islaam.

In reality the criticism here and defamation is not for Islaam rather it is these people who attribute themselves to Islaam. This is why it is obligatory for us to know that the wealth of those who have contracts with the Muslims is forbidden. Whether they are those who have a contract with you or you have a contract with them, it is not permissible to transgress upon them because that is oppression.’

Authored By Shaykh, Allaama, al-Faqeeh Muhammad bin Salih al-Uthaymeen

Translated by Abbas Abu Yahya - 

[Taken from ‘Sharh al-Arbaeen an-Nawawi’ – Shaykh Muhammad bin Salih al-Uthaymeen p.269-270 Hadeeth No.24]