Interest and Riba
4,478 questions
What is the ruling on working in an installment company that grants loans to customers, to be repaid over 15 months with a 50% interest rate, without the customer receiving any goods?
What is the ruling on lease-to-own agreements for real estate, which is a lease contract that ends with ownership of the property after paying monthly installments, with a penalty clause (late fee) for delayed installments, knowing that the contract is made with a third party who buys the property immediately and sells it on credit, and that this property will be used as a mosque?
What is the jurisprudential position of the Sunnis in Yemen regarding the Houthi militias' entry into Yemeni cities, and do they view the matter as a settling of political scores, or do they fear a repetition of previous scenarios?
Is it permissible for me to keep what I acquired from my salary earned while working for a loan company?
Is it permissible to use credit cards to purchase goods and then pay the amount in monthly installments with interest reaching 3%?
Are the temporary interest rates granted by the Central Bank on deposits (17% annually) considered permissible, on the basis that they are a grant from the state due to crisis conditions, or not?
Is it permissible to buy a house from a relative who owns this house and pays its installments to a usurious bank, on the condition that the amount paid by the buyer is used to settle the remaining usurious installments?
Is it permissible or impermissible to buy a house in installments with interest from the Arab Real Estate Bank, which owns part of the property before purchase, knowing that this is the only available method to buy a house and there is no other housing?
Is the money a father spends on his son permissible, even though the father works in farming and trade and deposits his money in a usurious bank without taking the usurious interest due to the absence of Islamic banks in the country, and is the money considered unlawful if the son is scrupulous and fears the impermissibility of this money?
Is taking a loan from a bank to establish a company permissible or forbidden?
What is the ruling on the New Suez Canal investment certificates, and is the return from them permissible or forbidden?
Is it permissible to take personal loans from Islamic banks, such as the Qatar International Islamic Bank?
Is it permissible to pay Zakat on money via bank transfer instead of handing it over in person?
What is the ruling on removing subscribers who post inappropriate pictures after being advised, and is one sinful for not removing them, knowing that removing them is the only available solution?
Is it permissible to donate the interest from money deposited in a usurious bank without the owner's knowledge, especially if I am asked to retrieve the money from the bank? And is it permissible to pay the value of the interest from my own money, or to replace it with my money after withdrawing it from his? And how can past interest be estimated if the deposit date is unknown?
Is working in the marketing of solar energy products permissible (halal), given that customers will acquire them through loans, and my role is limited to introducing the product and encouraging people to use it, without direct selling? And is this considered indirect encouragement to take out loans?
What is the ruling on one who says to a group of Muslims: "You are apostates," because of their cooperation with a disbeliever to harm Muslims, and does the verse apply to them: "And whoever among you takes them as allies is indeed one of them"?
Is the action you took -of preventing your father from mortgaging the family home to a bank that deals with interest- Islamically permissible?
What is the ruling of Islamic law on binary options trading online, knowing that the questioner relies in this trade on his prior knowledge of currency price movements through websites that broadcast prices faster than trading platforms, and based on that, he opens quick trades (15 seconds)? And is this permissible with the availability of Islamic accounts that are free of interest?
Is the interest paid by banks permissible or forbidden, and does it fall under the category of usury, given that the bank's investment activities are unknown?
What is the ruling concerning groups that spend four months and forty days in various parts of the earth inviting Muslims to adhere to the commands of Sharia?
Is it obligatory to dispose of only the interest, or of the entire amount deducted from the salary while working at an interest-based bank, and what about the money that was spent during that period?
Is it permissible to take out an interest-bearing loan to pay off debts and avoid imprisonment, given the absence of other alternatives to alleviate financial burdens?
Is it permissible to deposit money in a savings account that yields an annual interest of 6%?