Interest and Riba
4,478 questions
What is the ruling on buying a car in installments from an institution that finances its operations by borrowing money from a bank with interest (riba)?
Is the Bank of Egypt (Tal'at Harb) investment certificate with a 20% interest rate permissible or forbidden?
What is the ruling on taking a necessary loan from a non-Islamic bank for marriage?
If a Muslim possesses ill-gotten wealth and wishes to dispose of it, then a sum less than the ill-gotten wealth is stolen from him, is his 'Umrah valid if he intends to perform it?
What is the ruling on purchasing a computer device in installments from a bank at a price higher than its cash price, given that the increase does not constitute bank interest?
Is it permissible to engage in an installment transaction with a person who appoints his sister to carry out the purchase in order to avoid direct dealing in the purchase, knowing that he is the beneficiary and will pay the amount with interest, so as to avoid the suspicion of usury?
What is the ruling on working with a company that handles data entry for subscription applications of companies contracted with the National Commercial Bank?
What is the ruling on subscribing to the Saudi Printing and Packaging Company?
Is it permissible to take out a loan from the bank against the guarantee of a retirement pension to undergo surgery, knowing that the bank charges an 8% interest rate and there is no other way to cover the cost of the surgery?
What is the ruling on selling the questioner's share of the apartment to his brother, knowing that the apartment's lease contract ends with ownership after 5 years, and that the price of the share will be paid from a gift originating from usurious bank interest? And is abstaining in this case obligatory or recommended for the seller?
Should a person who took out a loan in the name of his deceased brother repay the debt to the bank after the bank waived it for him?
Is it permissible to write an amount greater than 14,000 EGP in a trust receipt as compensation for delay and damages?
Is purchasing or withdrawing with covered credit cards—with certainty of repayment before any interest-based increase is incurred—considered usury that warrants expulsion and curses from God’s mercy, or does it not reach the sin of usury and is not considered among the grave sins?
Is it permissible to take a loan from a bank to pay off an immediate debt that its owner cannot endure?
Is it Islamically permissible to purchase a house owned by the heirs of the grandfather — a house that the father contributed to building and that the questioner expanded — using a bank loan from the paternal uncles and aunts, knowing that one of the paternal uncles resides in the house while the rest of the heirs do not need it?
What is the ruling on investing money in the company BeCap and earning profits from it, and are these profits usurious?
What is the ruling on continuing to work in an interest-based bank for 13 years, knowing its prohibition, delaying leaving the job for financial gain, and disposing of the money and possessions acquired from it after leaving?
What is the ruling on funds compulsorily deposited in a bank from which usurious interest is obtained, given that one can either refuse the amount or invest it in forbidden trades?
Is it permissible for an employee of a bank to take out a personal loan from the bank without interest, and then enter into a partnership with me with this money in my trade, on the condition that I bear the profits and he bears the interest?
Is borrowing from a bank with usurious interest to buy a large apartment considered an urgent necessity that permits the forbidden, or does it remain forbidden, requiring the sale of the car to repay part of the loan as expiation for the sin?
What is the ruling on obtaining a real estate loan in the following manner: the bank buys the land from the client at the market price of 500,000 Saudi Riyals, then the bank sells it to the client through an Ijarah contract (lease with promise to own) at the same price of the land plus profits at a rate of 2.5% over ten years?
Is it permissible to accept a suitor who works in a usurious bank as an accounting department manager? And will his money be unlawful and affect the future of the children?
Is the interest resulting from a loan taken to purchase a house permissible, especially after the borrower was forced to take another loan to pay off the first one to avoid imprisonment, knowing that Allah was pleased with the Companions paying interest in similar cases?
Is it permissible for children to withhold a portion of their extravagant father's inheritance and save it for him without his knowledge, and is it permissible to pay off the father's debt to the maid from this money without his knowledge?