What is the ruling on working as an accountant in a company that deals with usurious and Islamic loans, knowing that the nature of the work involves recording bank transactions, monitoring account balances to settle loans, writing letters requesting financing from banks, and verifying the correctness of interest calculations?

It is not permissible for an accountant to work in recording and following up on usurious loans, their interest, and related matters. Even if he does not have a role in decision-making, his role is no less than that of the scribe of usury and its two witnesses. The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, cursed the one who consumes usury, the one who feeds it, its scribe, and its two witnesses, and he said: "They are all equal." An urgent necessity is an exception to this, such as if the accountant finds no other work to support himself and his dependents, and he cannot achieve the minimum standard of living without it. In such a case, it is temporarily permitted for him, while he strives to seek permissible work.