Maintenance Engineer in investment company

Question Alsalam Alaikum, Is it halal to work as a Maintenance Engineer in an Investment Company (not a bank, but managing money and making investments like purchasing real estate, public stocks, debt instruments, etc)? So basically I will not be working on anything...

Zakat on pensions

Question Salam, There are 2 parts to my question. 1. With my current employer I have a defined contribution pension plan where the employer contributes 10% of my salary into a pension pot managed by standard life which invests the money and I can only access that...

Divorce and pregnancy

Question Salam. I pray you are well. My (now) ex-husband divorced me on 24.05.2023, and on 08.06.2023, I took a pregnancy test, which came out positive. We had no clear indication that I was pregnant at the time that he had verbally divorced me. I read online that a...

Dua in one’s own language in salah

Question Assalamualikum Wa Rahmatullahi Wa Baraktu. are personal duas in our own language (if we dont speak Arabic) supposed to be made before tasleem or after tasleem (after concluding the salaah)? if it has to be before tasleem or if the duas before tasleem must be...

Terminated pregnancy due to medical reasons- 24 week

Question Salam, Background: At 20 weeks pregnancy scan we found out the baby had spina bifida (open hole in the spine). After multiple scans and specialist appointments over the next 4 weeks we were told, the brain/brain stem had shifted into the neck by 15mm, the...