Is Murabaha Halal or haram? i.e. a person wants to purchase a piece of land, but is unable to pay its price, he turns to someone else for help who offers to buy it and register it under his own name and later sells it back to him at a higher price. Is this contract halal or not? Is the additional amount on top of the actual price of the…

I'll tell you the situation; I make profit on selling apartments. For example, I bought an apartment for 30,000 and sold it for 35,000, after one year I've made 20,000 profit. I had last year 100,000 and now I have 120,000; on which amount do I have to pay the zakat; 120,000 or 20,000?

In the book The Islamic State, on the subject of the second pledge of Aqaba and what follows; (the Prophet (saw) "thought") is mentioned in more than one occasion, while the subject is revelation (Wahi) from Allah and not the thinking of the Prophet (saw). For instance: He thought of migration, but migration is a revelation (Wahi) from Allah, I hope that you can explain what is meant by "thinking"…

"...Abdul Rahman discussed with the remaining five, limiting the number of candidates to two; Ali and ‘Uthman...After investigating the opinions of the people, the opinion settled on ‘Uthman as a Khalifah." And on page 33: "...Go and call Ali and ‘Uthman for me...then he held the hand of Ali (ra)." Why did he hold Ali's hand when the choice was settled on Uthman to become the Khaleefah?