{"id":30421,"date":"2024-04-27T09:44:42","date_gmt":"2024-04-27T09:44:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/?p=30421"},"modified":"2024-04-27T21:02:43","modified_gmt":"2024-04-27T21:02:43","slug":"shares-in-company","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/shares-in-company\/","title":{"rendered":"If a Company Gives Employees Shares in the Company but the Shares Are Not Shariah Compliant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\"><strong>Fatwa ID: 07096<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\"><strong>Answered by: Muftiyah Safiyya-Maryam Ahmed<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\"><strong><u>Question:<\/u><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\">If a company gives employees shares in the company but the shares are not shariah compliant due to high debt are there any solutions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\">I assume it will not be permissible to benefit from just as it wouldn&#8217;t have been permissible to purchase due to the debt even though the business itself is lawful.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\"><strong><u>In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful<\/u><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\"><strong><u>Answer:<\/u><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\">If the business itself is halal it will be permissible for the employees to take the shares in the company. If by high debt you mean that the company is borrowing money on interest, then the employee must use their right as shareholder to object to this at their annual meetings. If the company is accumulating interest, then one can ascertain from their statements what percentage of interest is part of the business\u2019 income and then deduct that percentage from their dividend and give it to charity.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\">Principles\u00a0of Shariah Governing Islamic Investment Funds, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.albalagh.net\/Islamic_economics\/finance.shtml#Conditions\">Conditions for Investment in Shares<\/a>, By Mufti Taqi Usmani: <u><a href=\"https:\/\/www.albalagh.net\/Islamic_economics\/finance.shtml#Conditions\">https:\/\/www.albalagh.net\/Islamic_economics\/finance.shtml#Conditions<\/a><\/u><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\">Only Allah knows best<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\">Written by Muftiyah Safiyya-Maryam Ahmed<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\">Checked and approved by Mufti Mohammed Tosir Miah<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\">Darul Ifta Birmingham<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fatwa ID: 07096 \u00a0 \u00a0 Answered by: Muftiyah Safiyya-Maryam Ahmed &nbsp; Question: &nbsp; If a company gives employees shares in the company but the shares&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30421"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30421"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30454,"href":"http:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30421\/revisions\/30454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}