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Is it permissible to continue selling prohibited items (such as alcohol and lottery tickets) in owned gas stations to pay off usurious loans, knowing that the income from other lawful work is not sufficient to pay off these loans?

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One must hasten to pay off the loan to avoid usury. The station should not continue operating by selling alcohol and gambling to repay the debt. Rather, the bottles of alcohol must be broken and the gambling area shut down, even if the income from gasoline is insufficient and the bank threatens imprisonment, because alcohol and gambling are impermissible under any circumstances.

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