Interest and Riba
4,478 questions
What is the ruling on displaying a product – with pictures and specifications – as an advertisement to gauge market interest and determine the extent of public demand for it, without possessing it or intending to sell it?
What is the ruling on paying a sum of money to someone to register my attendance in all theoretical lectures at the university, without the need for my personal presence?
What are the matters that necessitate a wife's divorce?
Is one who tells his father a price lower than the real price for something he bought, to avoid angering his father who dislikes high prices, sinful?
What is the ruling on money that a father deposited for his son in the bank, which multiplied due to bank interest, with the son knowing the impermissibility of usurious interest, and is the son sinful if he only takes the principal?
Is it permissible to take out an interest-bearing loan to face financial hardship, represented by the husband's lack of suitable employment and the need for money to cover living expenses, education, and a program development project that may improve income?
Does sin befall the wife if her husband buys a new house with an interest-based loan, relying on a fatwa that permits it, knowing that he already owns a house also bought with an interest-based loan, and he intends to rent out the garage of the new house to pay off the bank installments?
What is the ruling on taking the return from a non-withdrawable gift, automatically invested by a bot on Telegram that operates through usurious investment?
What is the ruling on citizens employed in non-Islamic banks?
Is it permissible to take a loan from an Islamic bank that finances small projects by purchasing supplies and goods for the project and then repaying the amount in installments with an added profit margin, or does this fall under the category of usury (riba)?
Is it permissible to donate to a charity organization that lends to low-income individuals at an interest rate (5-10%) to finance their projects, and spends this interest on its employees' salaries and expanding its activities, while defining itself as "non-profit"?
Are the heirs obligated to dispose of the bank interest that the deceased acquired before knowing it was unlawful, and then died without having disposed of it?
What is the ruling on money and profits gained from a company in which you hold less than a 50% stake, and in which usurious loans were taken after you refused them, and you were unable to completely divest from it? Is it obligatory to give out a portion of the money from the shares sold or the profits, knowing that the loans are paid from the profits before distribution?
Is purchasing a car or electrical appliances in installments through the bank, where the bank pays the seller and the buyer repays the bank with a specified increase, considered usurious?
Is it obligatory to return the money to the father who prevented his son from transferring his money from a usurious bank to an Islamic bank, or is that considered cooperation in sin, or is it permissible to take it without his consent?
What is the ruling on the father of a girl stipulating that her suitor own an apartment, which forced him to take out an interest-based loan? And should they have let him start his life in a rented apartment?
Is it permissible to create an account on an e-commerce website that requires a credit card from an Islamic bank, which imposes an increase on the withdrawn amount after 55 days that is disbursed to charities and good deeds, given the absence of an alternative, and with sufficient funds available to avoid interest, and without using the card to withdraw money, and can this be a future source of livelihood?
Is it permissible to dispose of contracting funds for purposes other than those for which they were designated if the owner of the funds is not affected by that and the contractor owns many assets?
Is it permissible to purchase for customers from foreign websites using a prepaid visa card in euros, then collect the value of the purchases in dinars at the euro exchange rate of an electronic bank, which differs from the exchange rate of physical euros, and profit from the difference in price? And is it permissible to deal with shop owners to attract customers for a commission?
What is the legal ruling for a Muslim scholar, who works on innovations to serve Muslims, to ask wealthy Muslims for money to support his research? Is this considered blameworthy begging from people, or is cooperation between the scholar with his effort and the rich person with his money for the triumph of Islam preferable?
Is it permissible to apply for a resettlement program in Canada that requires borrowing from a bank with a reduced interest rate to complete one's studies, knowing that other alternatives are unavailable or difficult to achieve?
Is it permissible to pray in small mosques that have defied the decision to close them? And is it better to pray Fajr at home or in the small mosques that delay the Iqamah?
What is the ruling on buying a car from a bank that undertakes to pay its full price, with the buyer paying one-fifth of the amount to the bank, and then the bank deducts monthly installments from the buyer's salary that exceed the remaining four-fifths?
Is it permissible for a university student to work temporarily in usurious banks to gain experience?