Is it permissible to study accounting, a profession that may involve forbidden usurious transactions, knowing that this degree opens up excellent job opportunities?
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If you intend by studying to seek assistance in an unlawful act, such as writing down usury, then it is not permissible; because means have the rulings of their ends. However, if you intend by it to seek assistance in a permissible act, then there is no harm.
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