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Does usury apply to manufactured goods made from usurious categories, such as bread and cakes made from wheat, and molasses made from dates?

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Source: FtawySummary from Ftawy's records · added here Sep 2, 20261 min readAlso available in العربية
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The issue of permissibility of selling some usurious items for others, with a change in their form, is a matter of scholarly disagreement. Some scholars differentiate between a change that does not remove the commodity from its original form and characteristic (such as grinding wheat or drying dates), and a change that creates an industry which removes the commodity from its origin and alters its purpose of use (such as baking flour or pressing oil). What does not depart from its origin is permissible to be exchanged like for like, whereas what departs from its origin and its purpose changes is permissible to be exchanged with a differential, except for what falls under the category of muzabanah.

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