Answered by Shaykh Irshaad Sedick Question My son has joined an auditing firm and has been assigned to perform the external financial audit of a company that manufactures or sells alcohol. He has no part in making, selling, or promoting alcohol. Is the audit permissible? Is independent verification different from assisting in alcohol transactions? Is […]

Answered by Shaykh Faraz Rabbani Question I am a Muslim software developer. Several years ago, I built a will-writing platform for a client that helps Muslims create Faraid-compliant wills. The client now wants me to build a new version of the same platform for Jewish clients, based on halacha rather than Faraid. The default division […]

Answered by Shaykh Irshaad Sedick Question What is the ruling on a government setting a minimum wage? Some claim it is unlawful by analogy with the prohibition on fixing prices. Is that a valid opinion, and is it drawn from Islamic scholarship or from free-market thinkers such as Mises and Friedman? Is an employer obliged […]

Answered by Shaykh Irshaad Sedick Question I build software that detects people and objects in video. To train and test it, I download openly licensed photographs, none pornographic, and an automated filter removes anything indecent. Some remaining photos show women without hijab or men in shorts. No human looks at them; a program processes them, […]