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Is it permissible to accept a job in the Islamic finance department of a global usurious bank, even though the salary will be paid by the usurious bank, and the employee intends through this to educate people about Islamic banking?

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If the Islamic transactions branch within the bank operates according to the decisions of a reliable and trustworthy Sharia committee, and its work is separate from the interest-based operations of the bank, then there is no objection to working in it. The transformation of interest-based banks into Islamic ones is not impossible, because Islam is the origin of banking transactions.

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