Interest and Riba
4,478 questions
Is it permissible to indirectly buy and sell cars subsidized by the government for profit, where the beneficiary, unable to pay, partners with others to finance the purchase, and then the car is sold in the market and the profit is divided? Is it permissible for the financier to buy the car after it has been offered in the market, with half of the profit deducted from the price?
What is the ruling on an employee benefiting from their company's contribution to purchasing a car in installments through a usurious bank, given that the car is prohibited from being sold to the bank, and does the ruling differ if the employee pays their full share upon purchase?
What is the ruling on purchasing shares in a telecommunications company (whose core business is permissible) that deposits its money in an interest-based bank or borrows from it, especially since the company encourages employees to buy shares by granting them the same amount they purchase (401k)?
What is the ruling on birth control in Islam, with supporting evidence?
What is the ruling on money acquired from an unlawful act before knowing of its prohibition?
What is the ruling on fixed interest from usurious banks in the absence of Islamic banks and the fear of losing money?
Is it permissible to transfer the amount of a vow to another mosque that deserves the same thing or its maintenance, or to contribute to building a new mosque in another country that bears the name of the first mosque, especially after being unable to fulfill the vow to the first mosque due to financial circumstances and because the vowed items have already become available there?
What is the ruling on me lying to my mother and telling her that my brother kicked her out of the house, so that I can get a house in London because the authorities are not helping me obtain one?
What is the ruling on taking a commission from non-Islamic banks in exchange for convincing a customer to purchase through them?
Is it permissible for the heirs to convert the remaining one-third of their father's estate, bequeathed for charitable deeds, into an endowment (waqf), and who would be the supervisor (nazir) of this endowment?
Is it permissible to deal with a brokerage company that allows a client to purchase shares at double their paid-up capital, on the condition that the company pays the remaining amount and collects it deferred with an increased brokerage commission (from 5 to 7 per thousand), and the shares are registered in the client’s name without a late penalty? And is this transaction considered usury (riba)?
What is the ruling on setting a 25% rate on the remaining amount after paying more than half the price of a device that someone bought for me?
Is placing money in any bank and receiving interest permissible (halal)?
Is it permissible for a woman, if she has committed adultery, to abort the fetus?
What is the ruling on a construction loan of one million dinars, where half of it (half a million dinars) is paid with interest, and the remaining half (half a million dinars) is considered a non-refundable grant from the state, given that the total interest does not exceed the amount of the grant?
What is the ruling on swearing a false oath on the Qur’an to avoid harming an upright person, and what are the consequences of this action?
Is a deposit, for a term of ten years, with a value of ten thousand pounds to become thirty thousand pounds in an Islamic bank, permissible, knowing that Zakat is paid every year on the original amount?
What is the ruling on buying and selling international currencies? What is the ruling on trading in international stock markets through a financial intermediary using the margin system, and what are the rules governing that? Is it permissible to buy and sell shares of foreign industrial companies that engage in lending and borrowing with interest?
What is the ruling on working to promote and install credit card machines for restaurants that serve pork, and for supermarkets that sell cigarettes and alcohol, knowing that the company takes a percentage of the income of these establishments and gives me a percentage of that percentage?
What is the ruling on paying off the remaining house price with an usurious increase, knowing that I cannot pay the amount in one lump sum?
Is interest on capital considered usury (riba), especially with exorbitant price increases and volatile prices that lead to the erosion of the value of capital saved in the bank?
Is the savings program at the bank, which deducts 5% of the salary and grants a bonus that increases with the duration of participation (reaching 200% after 20 years), and is disbursed upon retirement, while half of the bonus is disbursed upon early withdrawal, considered a usurious program?
What is the Shar'i ruling on investing other people's money in building and selling real estate with fixed, unchangeable profits, without giving depositors any percentage of capital inflation or increased profits resulting from rising real estate prices, and refusing to return their money or delaying that while not acknowledging their share?
Is it permissible to purchase a house in installments, even though the National Savings and Provident Fund (CNEP), which deals with usury, is a party to the transaction, knowing that I am in dire need of the house and that the state takes the usury?