Interest and Riba
4,478 questions
Is it permissible to marry a man who works at Faisal Bank, knowing that the bank deals with treasury bills and usurious bonds issued by the Central Bank, and that the suitor is a department manager whose work is not related to these usurious transactions, and that the bank is an Islamic bank based on the Mudarabah system and sells goods with interest?
Is it permissible for a university professor, who was stipulated to deposit 25% of his salary in an interest-based bank to obtain an unpaid leave, to submit an inaccurate statement of his salary to reduce the deposited amount and the tax deducted therefrom?
Is a student sinful if he does not repay an interest-bearing loan he obtained from the state, knowing that it is the state's custom not to demand repayment of these loans from students?
What is the ruling on renting out personal equipment to an institution where one works, through an intermediary institution, such that the lessor has a preferential right to rent due to their position, and what is the ruling on the money resulting from this transaction?
Is the brokerage contract undertaken by the company for real estate investment permissible (halal)? Does the company's taking a fixed percentage for insuring the building against fire and disasters make it impermissible (haram)? Is it obligatory to inquire about the source of the one-month reservation of the property, and whether it is an interest-based (riba-based) loan? And does this make it impermissible (haram)?
What is the ruling on working for a company that maintains electrical generators for usurious banks, and what should the owner of the company do?
Is it permissible to drop a percentage of the interest resulting from an Islamic Murabahah sale upon settlement of the remaining installments?
Does closing an account in a usurious bank and opening another in an Islamic bank mean that it is permissible to deal with the aforementioned companies?
Is it permissible for a Muslim residing in France to pay an annual sum to banks that undertake to return the deceased's body to their country for burial in Muslim cemeteries?
Is it permissible to pay the sum of 28,000 pounds, unlawfully demanded by the electricity company, from bank interest in order to get rid of it?
Is it permissible to sell cars in installments at a car dealership, knowing that the bank charges the buyer interest, and would the seller thereby be a cause for this interest?
What is the ruling on calculating usury, evaluating it, and recording it in accounting ledgers, and auditing it, knowing that this is an integral part of the work of external auditors for estimating the amount of Zakat?
Is it permissible for someone who has repented from taking an interest-based loan to benefit from the difference between the selling price of the house he bought with the loan and the amount of the loan repayment, knowing that he made renovations to the house?
Is the money given by the bank as a gift to customers, and which I receive monthly from the employment office, unlawful (haram)? And is it permissible for me to receive 490 dirhams every six months from the bank in Morocco to help my disabled cousin and his family, instead of leaving it for the bank to benefit from, knowing that I do not expect any reward for it?
What is the ruling of the religion on personal loans from banks, if taking the amount contributes to an individual's betterment and helping others in honorable work, and what is the solution if it is unlawful and the amount cannot be repaid currently?
Is there sin or participation in sin for the contractor who builds homes for citizens with usurious loan financing, knowing that these loans are the only way for citizens to build their homes?
Are the compensation funds – taken as compensation for the people after the Gulf War – permissible, and are the interest accrued on them later also permissible?
How are the shares of sons and daughters determined in a sum allocated to them monthly or periodically and kept in a savings fund for use in their adulthood? Should the male receive the equivalent of two females' shares, or should it be equally divided? What should be done with these funds in the event of the allocator's death?
Is it permissible to purchase goods in installments when there is interest on their original price?
What is the ruling on a wife continuing in a marriage to a husband who insists on an interest-based loan, and is she entitled to seek divorce because of it?
Is buying a house through a bank and renting out half of it to pay off the bank installments considered unlawful (haram) in Islamic Sharia?
What is usury [riba] linguistically and terminologically?
Is it permissible to take out a housing loan with diminishing interest from a commercial bank, where the bank pays the agreed-upon price of the dwelling to the seller after the property becomes owned by the buyer and mortgaged to the bank?
Is it permissible to obtain a loan from an orphan fund to purchase a car?