Is the money received as an end-of-service bonus and a monthly pension from a former insurance company—said to have a suspicion of usury (riba)—considered unlawful (haram), and what should he do with it, given that he spent it on his children's marriages and improving his livelihood, and he has no other source of income?
Ill-gotten wealth must be disposed of by spending it on the welfare of Muslims and giving it to the poor and needy. It is not permissible to take from it for oneself or one's family, unless one is poor and in need; in that case, one may give it as charity to oneself and one's family.
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