Is My Income Halal?

While surfing the internet today to find other fellow muslim bloggers, I came across a blog called ProductiveMuslim.com
and I feel some sort of obligations to share its posting with others. Good way of "muhasabah" ourself and improve our "halalness" of our income. May Allah SWT give us strength.....

"The TV commercials, recently debuted in major Middle-eastern channels, depict different scenarios which make your income non-halaal, and then cleverly interprets the Prophetic saying "hellfire is more deserving of every flesh which has been nourished through that which is unlawful” by showing fire burning on the faces of those you feed non-halal income. Scary but sooo visual and makes one think!

Although the commercials are in Arabic, yet they are mostly self explanatory. I’ve added some titles/sub-headings to help you understand the gist of what's going on. The last part of each video asks "Is your income halal?""

- my comments; for the purpose of "muhasabah" we should ask ourself instead of others...Is My Income Halal??


TV Commercial 1 - Accepting Bribery at work




TV Commercial 2 - A Doctor at his private clinic who over-prescribes tests/x-rays/medicines for his patients so he earns more money




TV Commercial 3 - A teacher who simply sits in front of her class and does not teach them anything, but sits and waits for the bell to ring so she can sign off and go home.




TV Commercial 4 - Arriving late at work but having your friend sign you in early!




TV Commercial 5 - Waking up late and making up lies as excuses for not coming in!




TV Commercial 6 - A man having trouble with rent/bills/expenses calls his employer who hasn't paid him for 2 months, the employer gives him the excuse that he has no money even though he's having a lavish dinner with his family!