Back to search

Is it permissible to benefit from shopping vouchers provided by the bank, knowing that they are granted in exchange for maintaining a minimum balance, otherwise a monthly fee is deducted?

1 min readAlso available in العربية

A bank is either interest-based or Islamic. If it is interest-based, it is not permissible to open any account with it, as that would be assisting in usury. If it is an Islamic bank, then if the vouchers are stipulated in the contract, they are unlawful because they fall under a loan that brings benefit. However, if they are not stipulated and the bank gives them to some customers, then they are considered a permissible gift. As for the deduction when the balance is low, this has been explained previously in a fatwa.

Summarized from the full answer at Ftawy · reviewed Sep 2, 2026

Read the full answer on Ftawy