Interest and Riba
4,478 questions
Is it permissible or impermissible to deposit money into investment certificates and withdraw a loan whose interest is equivalent to the value of the profits?
Is it permissible to take the current amount of the shares that were bought by guardians in a usurious bank 25 years ago without the shareholders' knowledge, knowing that the price per share has increased from 1000 Riyals to 30,000 Riyals, and is this amount lawful?
What is the ruling of Islamic law on lying about one's place of residence to facilitate legal procedures when reporting the theft of a car license plate?
Is it permissible to borrow from relatives who deposit their money in a usurious bank, and pay them a monthly return instead of the bank, or what is the legitimate Shar'i way for a permissible contract that secures a monthly income for them?
Is a son considered disobedient to his mother if he rents a house to live with his wife near his work due to the long distance, after his mother refused and threatened to curse him?
What is the ruling on purchasing a car from an interest-based bank out of necessity, in a non-Islamic country, given the unavailability of transportation for work and daily needs?
What is the ruling on dealing with the Islamic bank in France, and are its transactions halal, and is it permissible to deal with a usurious bank under the mentioned circumstances?
How can I partner with a clothing company owner to ensure it is free of riba (interest), and what is the correct way to agree upon or draw up the contract?
Is it permissible to take a housing loan from an institution that charges a fixed rate of 10%, regardless of the repayment period, such as collecting $1700 on a $15,0 loan, whether for five or ten years?
Are the returns on investment certificates from Faisal Islamic Bank of Egypt considered permissible (halal), especially given the differing scholarly opinions regarding them and the doubts raised by some concerning the bank's adherence to Sharia?
How does one purify oneself or one's business from what was unlawful in the past without knowing it, such as financing a commercial shop with an interest-based loan that is still being repaid, or failing to pay debts due to bankruptcy after making an effort to repay them?
Is there sin upon the wife and children when using electrical appliances bought by the husband in installments through a Murabaha system with a discount from the interest of usurious investment certificates, with the wife's intention to pay their value from her own money?
Should I investigate and inquire about the source of the funds of the company I work for, and whether my salaries and dues are paid from usurious profits, especially since I am not certain of that?
Is it permissible to subscribe to a club through financing from a usurious bank, knowing that the bank first buys the membership and then sells it in fixed and determined installments, and that the membership is an intangible asset, and in case of default on payment, the bank recovers the remaining amount from the club without any additions?
Is it permissible to deal with usurious bank interest – on a monthly basis – for the purpose of preserving the capital from the decrease of its purchasing power, given the absence of another investment alternative, and is this case considered one of necessity that permits it?
Is a female author sinful for writing a book about marital relationships without alerting readers to the condition that electronic games must be free of Sharia prohibitions, within the context of her discussion on how a wife should deal with her husband's interest in these games? And what should she do about this, and about the copies that have been sold?
Is it permissible to take out a loan with interest from a British bank in order to buy a house?
What is the ruling on dealing with foreign banks and keeping money in them, and is it permissible to take the interest resulting from deposits in banks and then give it to needy relatives, or must it be spent in other areas?
What is the ruling on purchasing in installments from stores that deal with banks as intermediaries, where the bank pays the full price to the store and collects the amount from the buyer in installments without interest? And what is the ruling on that if purchasing in installments leads to an increase in price?
Is the transaction permissible in which a person pays 20,0 to another for the purchase of a car worth 60,0, on condition that the buyer leases it to a company for 2,0 and gives the payer one-third of the profit, with a guarantee of the return of the capital (20,0) by check if they wish to withdraw from the partnership?
What is the ruling on purchasing a car for a media services company through a long-term lease-to-own contract, knowing that this contract is not free of the suspicion of usurious dealings?
Is it permissible for a woman living alone with her child in a foreign country, who is unable to work and possesses a sum of money, to deposit her money in a bank and live off its monthly interest?
What is the Islamic legal principle behind the statement: "If an item intervenes, there is no usury (riba); because the intervention of an item removes the transaction from the scope of prohibited usurious loans to permissible murabaha," in the case where a customer purchases goods from a supplier through a bank that pays cash and sells them to the customer on a periodic deferred payment basis under a current debit account system, with a prior agreement on the deferred purchase price in exchange for the bank paying the price of the item in cash to the supplier?
Is a person sinful if he sells an ancient, embodied statue—with his knowledge of the unlawfulness of its price—and then uses its price to pay interest on usurious bank loans for his friends who pledged not to return to usurious borrowing?