Interest and Riba
4,478 questions
Is it permissible to borrow with interest when debts accumulate and the borrower suffers from a kidney disease?
Is the divorced woman entitled to take the gold she possessed, and her daughter's gold that was gifted to her at birth, after her husband has paid her deferred mahr?
What is the ruling on working in a central bank that does not deal with the public, does not offer loans, and does not accept deposits?
What is the ruling on buying a car in installments and borrowing with interest from a bank in the absence of an Islamic alternative and the essential need for a car?
Is profit from Udemy courses permissible, knowing that the site transfers funds to Payoneer and then to a local bank, whether interest-based or not?
What is the ruling on bank interest for residents in European countries, and is it permissible for someone in dire need who has neither work nor money?
What is the ruling on taking interest—amounting to 2% and designated for administrative procedures—on government loans granted to young people for the purpose of marriage?
What is the ruling on making a deposit in an Islamic bank like Faisal Islamic Bank?
Is it permissible to benefit from the interest accrued on a sum of a bank loan that was deposited into an account after the need for it ceased, in exchange for the interest that the bank takes on the same loan?
Are government-subsidized housing loans permissible, regardless of whether the bank is usurious or not, and do they become permissible if they are through Islamic Murabaha from an institution such as the Orphan Fund Development Foundation?
What is the ruling on converting a bank account to an interest-bearing account, while donating the illicit interest to the needy, if the bank profits from the money in any case?
Is the formula of "leasehold interest in a specified liability," whereby the bank purchases assets and leases them to the client through an Ijarah Muntahia Bil Tamleek (a lease ending with ownership) with a promise of ownership, executed through separate contracts, permissible or usurious?
What is the ruling on obtaining a loan from Al Rajhi Bank to purchase a car, where shares are sold to the customer instead of the car, so that he may sell them or the bank may sell them for him?
Is it permissible or forbidden to receive a commission for bringing a client to an exchange office?
Is it obligatory to repay a deceased father's debt to a bank after more than ten years have passed since his death?
Is a supplementary retirement plan in employment considered usury?
Is it not more befitting for financially capable sheikhs and students of knowledge to establish Islamic banks instead of dealing with usurious banks?
Is a bank loan with interest that a young man takes out to finance his marriage considered an usurious loan, and is it permissible for a woman to accept marriage from this young man?
What is the ruling on working as an administrative manager in a commercial marketplace that sells alcohol and pork, and what is the ruling concerning the years prior to that, knowing that the person in question does not currently deal directly with them?
Does money earned from forex trading without an Islamic account carry the sin of usury (riba)? Is it permissible to spend it on a financially struggling brother who is aware of the matter? Is it possible to continue trading with the same company by converting the account to an Islamic one?
What is the ruling on depositing money in the post office; is that considered usury (riba)?
Is it permissible to recover money stolen from a bank through the bank's profits, knowing that bank profits are usury (riba)?
What is the ruling on recording and listening to incoming calls to the company, whether or not the employee and the customer are aware of it, and what is the ruling on selling this program without obliging the customer to add an audio notification stating that the call may be recorded?
Is it permissible to pay state taxes from interest?