The Ifta’ Law number (60) of the year 2006, and the modifying Law number (4) of the year 2009 state that a Board is to be established in the Kingdom and called “Board of Iftaa’, Islamic Studies and Research,” and that the General Mufti (who is now Shaikh Abdel Kareem El-Khasawneh) is the Head of the Board. The following are members: ... Read More
The Fatwa Department of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan was founded in 1921. Since its formation, it has relied upon Hanafi fatwas which were in use during the Ottoman era, and the Mufti has answered the questions of members of the public, whether they relate to worship or financial transactions or personal statutes, and it has assigned a mufti to each judge in cities both large and small. The judge seeks the mufti's assistance in solving social problems, just as the mufti refers to the judge matters which are not within the mufti's jurisdiction and which require evidence and witnesses....
What is the ruling on the profits of the money deposited into the bank as a trust for someone? For example, someone has entrusted me to keep a certain sum for him, but I deposited it into a bank account and it made profits. Is it permissible for me to take the profits and give back the original sum to its owner?
A person kept a sum of money with another person as a deposit where he attached a letter clarifying to whom it should be delivered. What is the ruling on this? And is it permissible to avoid handing this deposit to the person mentioned in the letter?
I kept my mother`s gold in a safe place at my home. Unfortunately, it was stolen one week prior to her passing away. As for my wife`s gold, it was intact although it was in the same room where I kept my mother`s gold. The gold is worth (8000 JDs). Are the heirs entitled to receive their shares in this gold although it was stolen. It is worth stating that I have informed the security authorities and they have taken the full range of actions. What is the ruling of Sharia on this?
I have registered a piece of land in my sister`s name because I hold a two-year Jordanian passport and provided that she gives it back upon my request. When I asked her to deliver that land back to me, she refused although she had admitted that the land is mine and has been entrusted to her. She is stalling under the pretext that she wants a Fatwa in this regard. What is the ruling of Sharia on this?