Am I permitted to continue photocopying documents related to unlawful bank loans or life insurance, knowing that refraining from doing so may result in violations and financial penalties?
What is predominantly thought or known with certainty to be intended for copying a usurious file or a forbidden matter, such as commercial insurance, is not permissible to copy due to cooperation in sin, based on the Almighty's saying: "And do not cooperate in sin and aggression," and the Prophet's (peace be upon him) saying: "Allah has cursed the one who consumes Riba, the one who feeds it, its two witnesses, and its scribe, and he said: 'They are all equal.'" The mentioned violation is an injustice, and there is no harm in escaping from it and circumventing it. However, it is better to move away from a place where usurious transactions are frequent.
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