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Is it permissible to obtain personal financing through the Tawarruq (Islamic Murabaha) system from a bank that profits 10,000 Saudi Riyals on 100,000 Saudi Riyals, payable over three years, knowing that I have not inspected the commodity, nor supervised the sale process, nor am I assured that the commodity has been genuinely sold, and there is a penalty clause for increasing the percentage in case of late payment, and is it permissible to use credit cards that impose interest when payment is delayed beyond the due period?

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It is impermissible to enter into the aforementioned transaction for two reasons:

Firstly: It is an organized tawarruq (monetization), and the Islamic Fiqh Academy, in its seventeenth session, clarified that such tawarruq is impermissible because it resembles the forbidden 'inah (buy-back agreement) in Islamic law. It also leads to a failure in the legitimate قبض (seizure/possession) and is based on cash financing with an increment.

Secondly: The contract includes a condition for increasing the interest rate upon delay in paying installments. This is a usurious and forbidden condition that is impermissible to enter into, and the condition of a credit card is similar.

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