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What is the ruling on working as a full-time lawyer for a non-governmental organization (NGO) that provides interest-bearing loans, where the work involves disbursing loans, verifying promissory notes, and legally pursuing defaulters?

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Lending with interest is the prohibited usury, the prohibition of which was revealed in the Quran. What this association does is what the people of Jahiliyyah (pre-Islamic ignorance) used to do, and your work in it is forbidden. In the : "Allah has cursed the one who consumes usury, the one who feeds it, its two scribes, and its two witnesses." And he said: "They are all equal in sin." Therefore, it is obligatory for you to repent and leave this work immediately, because it is not permissible for you. Allah Almighty says: "And do not be an advocate for the deceitful." So, be content with lawful provision, even if it is little, for Allah blesses the little lawful and destroys the abundant unlawful.

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