Is taking a loan from a bank to pay delayed salaries considered impermissible (haram), knowing that the employer will be the one to repay the loan and its interest?
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It is not permissible to take this usurious loan, because even if you are not directly involved in usury yourselves, your assistance in it constitutes a form of cooperation in what is forbidden. Allah Almighty says: "And cooperate in righteousness and piety, but do not cooperate in sin and aggression."
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