In such a condition what is the way out for an American Muslim?
In such a condition what is the way out for an American Muslim? Answer: The thing haraam in Islam is borrowing or lending money on interest. That is a person takes a loan from another that at the time of repayment he would pay a particular amount etc., it is Riba, interest and it is haraam. And there is no harm in purchasing something on installment, even if the cost of this thing is more than what it would have been if it were paid cash.
Question 8: Can an American Muslim approach the American courts? Can an America Muslim appoint a non-Muslim for a post even though he knows that person is not agreeable to Islam? Can an American Muslim take an oath by the Bible or should he demand that he should be given a copy of the Holy Quran to take the oath? Answer: When there is no other way to obtain ones right and it is only possible through those courts, an American Muslim can approach them.
An American Muslim can appoint a non-Muslim for a secular post provided the position achieved by the latter is not used against Islam or Muslims and the rights of any other person must not have been denied through this appointment. But if it is not so, such an appointment is not allowed.
Since the present books of Jews and Christians are to some extent based on divine teachings though most of it is distorted, even then civility demands that a person who takes an oath on them to be true to his word. But from the Islamic point of view the oath is not binding on him and there is no penalty for breaking this oath Question 9: It is said that a Muslim man can marry Ahl al-Kitab (People of the Book) women but a Muslim lady cannot marry Ahl al-Kitab man.
If this is so, what is the reason for it? If Islam has prohibited marriage with polytheists is marriage not forbidden with those Christians who believe in trinity or in the intercession of Popes? It is also said that Muslims are not allowed to marry the apostates. In such a condition can a Muslim marry a woman who is a member of the communist party, who is an apostate and denies the existence of God?
Is it allowed for a Muslim to marry those modern people who consider the Almighty Allah to be merely a figment of human imagination? Can an American Muslim marry a Catholic lady? And he is helpless to the circumstances that his marriage ceremony is performed in a church and according to catholic rituals. He also has to sign a particular undertaking that his children must be brought up as Catholics?