Is it permissible for a person who has a job and a salary that barely suffices him, and who owns a share in a plot of land whose price has not been fully paid, to take from Zakat or Sadaqah to pay off a student loan with interest from a Western bank?
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If the land exceeds his basic needs and he can dispense with it without undue hardship, then it is not permissible for the person to take because he is not poor or in debt (). He must sell a portion of it to pay off his debt and rid himself of usury.
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