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February 21

Islamic ruling infertile woman vs. fertile man and fertile woman vs. infertile man married or single

Is there a Islamic ruling whether a married infertile man or single infertile man can have sexual intercourse with a single or married fertile woman and also whether a married or single infertile woman can have sexual intercourse with a single or married fertile man? Please no discussion, just answer and thanks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.29.32.68 (talk) 00:39, 21 February 2015 (UTC)

It will depend on the sect of Islam. Generally speaking, however, infertility does not matter, and sex before marriage is generally perceived as haram - forbidden. Adultery is considered as a sin, and is generally treated with the death penalty under Shariah law. You will have to expand on which type of Islamic ruling you are asking about, as there are many different types. KägeTorä - (^影_虎) (Chin Wag) 01:14, 21 February 2015 (UTC)

• Wikipedia has an article titled Islamic sexual jurisprudence which may be of use to answering your question. I would read the article, and then follow references made by the article to more reading within and outside Wikipedia, in order to answer the question for yourself. --Jayron32 02:08, 21 February 2015 (UTC)

Real estate customers

When a real estate broker facilitates a sale between a house buyer and a house seller, (a) does the real estate broker serve the buyer (by negotiating a low price for the house), (b) does the real estate broker serve the seller (by negotiating a high price for the house), or (c) does the real estate broker serve both the buyer and the seller (by negotiating a compromised price for the house)?
—Wavelength (talk) 22:07, 21 February 2015 (UTC)

Neither and both and all three. Both the buyer and the seller can hire a real estate broker to represent their interests, and the two brokers negotiate the best deal for their own client, and then each take their cut of the sale. There are also dual agents, though these are rare, and in some cases, may be against the rules, depending on jurisdiction. That's because both the buyer's agent and the seller's agent each have a Fiduciary responsibility to their client, and the buyer and seller have exactly competing interests. If only one of the parties has an agent (which is actually pretty common, perhaps the most common arrangement) it is more common to have a seller's agent; buyers are more likely to act on their own than the sellers, but there are still plenty of transactions involving two agents. There are also situations known as "FSBO" (often pronounced "fizzbo" in certain dialects) or For sale by owner situations, but that gets tricky, because the seller has to hire all of the lawyers and inspectors and file all the paperwork themselves. The seller's agent usually does all that dirty work, which is what they get their 6% commission for. Buyer's agents (which are a fairly recent phenomenon) typically get a 3% commission rather than 6% because they don't have to handle all the legal rigmarole the seller's agent does. --Jayron32 22:17, 21 February 2015 (UTC)

I wonder if Modern Family was written by a real estate agent, as one of the characters is a real estate agent, and another has an alter-ego clown named "Fizzbo". StuRat (talk) 15:49, 22 February 2015 (UTC)

While practices vary from state to state, in the United States there typically is a listing broker, who has a relationship with the seller, and a selling broker, who has a relationship with the buyer (or, often, buyers) and takes the buyer to see houses listed by a variety of sellers. Except in the somewhat unusual case of the buyer's agent, however, both the listing broker and the selling broker are deemed to represent the seller. In practice, while the listing broker is fairly focused on getting the highest price, the selling broker's strongest incentive is to promote the consummation of a transaction, with price a secondary consideration. In addition, notwithstanding that their legal obligation is to the seller, selling brokers often feel a considerable degree of loyalty to the buyer with whom they have a relationship. John M Baker (talk) 03:56, 23 February 2015 (UTC)