Interest and Riba

4,478 questions

Is it permissible to pay Zakat al-Mal (Zakat on wealth) to charitable organizations such as the Children's Cancer Hospital and the Egyptian Food Bank?
What is the Sharia ruling on a financing contract for the purchase of a factory from a European institution, where the project is the sole collateral, and the borrower repays the factory's value with an added percentage and a fixed profit?
Is using a credit card at a point-of-sale (POS) device to withdraw cash from a store—in order to avoid cash advance fees and usurious interest—considered a form of deception?
Is it obligatory to give usurious money to a maternal aunt, and is it permissible to keep it when there is no work and her son is an orphan?
Is it permissible to announce a pregnancy immediately after embryo implantation, even if the success of the procedure has not yet been confirmed, in order to avoid questions from family and to protect the child psychologically?
Is the work of a municipal inspector, involving the monitoring and fining of unlicensed construction, permissible, knowing that citizens must be fined in courts?
Is it permissible to take a loan from an interest-based (usurious) bank to buy land due to the unavailability of an Islamic bank?
Did Sheikh Al-Qaradawi permit buying a house in Morocco through usurious banks due to the absence of Islamic banks, the high cost of real estate, and the rising price of rent?
What is the ruling on a wife going out to study alone with male colleagues?
What is the ruling on purchases made with money from interest-based bank profits, and buying a car through the bank with the deposited money as collateral, along with its interest? And how can my father dispose of this money?
What is the ruling on borrowing money from family to cover the expenses of Hajj, on condition that the money is repaid before going for Hajj?
Is it permissible for the father to forcibly take his child from the custody of the mother after the court has established her unsuitability for care due to health reasons, and that the place is unsuitable for proper upbringing, and given the court's failure to respond to his plea to apply the law in an illegitimate manner?
Is it permissible to sell building materials to a friend at a price higher than the government-subsidized purchase price, knowing that he does not have a license to purchase materials at the subsidized price?
What is the ruling on using the "Premium Card" which allows purchasing goods in installments over 10 months without interest, in exchange for an annual subscription fee of 75 EGP, with the installments being deducted directly from the salary monthly?
What is the method of repentance for not being able to repay a debt on time?
Is it permissible to borrow with interest from a bank to pay off debts, cover educational expenses, and meet essential needs?
Is it permissible to use or gift a shopping voucher, provided as a reward from Al-Baraka, resulting from the use of an uncovered Islamic credit card, with the commitment to pay dues on time?
Is it permissible to spend the interest gained from usury on buying food for cats?
Is it permissible to donate interest earnings from a national bank to extremely poor women who have no provider or source of income?
Is it permissible for students to leave a lesson to pray, and to hold religious lessons during study time without permission?
Is it permissible for me to keep 50 riyals as profit from purchasing 200 riyals worth of credit with my own money, after my father gave me 50 riyals to buy credit?
What is the expiation for swearing falsely in an administrative investigation concerning the husband, with coercion and without harming anyone?
What is the ruling on designing and programming a website to sell medical devices if it includes medical e-books that contain nude images of women and men, along with the client's request to upload these books in their entirety?
Is it permissible to pay the bank after the governorate has transferred the debt to it and started collecting installments from it, knowing that the unit price doubles with installment payments and the installments increase annually, and is this considered a usurious loan?

Interest and Riba

Is it permissible to pay Zakat al-Mal (Zakat on wealth) to charitable organizations such as the Children's Cancer Hospital and the Egyptian Food Bank?

What is the Sharia ruling on a financing contract for the purchase of a factory from a European institution, where the project is the sole collateral, and the borrower repays the factory's value with an added percentage and a fixed profit?

Is using a credit card at a point-of-sale (POS) device to withdraw cash from a store—in order to avoid cash advance fees and usurious interest—considered a form of deception?

Is it obligatory to give usurious money to a maternal aunt, and is it permissible to keep it when there is no work and her son is an orphan?

Is it permissible to announce a pregnancy immediately after embryo implantation, even if the success of the procedure has not yet been confirmed, in order to avoid questions from family and to protect the child psychologically?

Is the work of a municipal inspector, involving the monitoring and fining of unlicensed construction, permissible, knowing that citizens must be fined in courts?

Is it permissible to take a loan from an interest-based (usurious) bank to buy land due to the unavailability of an Islamic bank?

Did Sheikh Al-Qaradawi permit buying a house in Morocco through usurious banks due to the absence of Islamic banks, the high cost of real estate, and the rising price of rent?

What is the ruling on a wife going out to study alone with male colleagues?

What is the ruling on purchases made with money from interest-based bank profits, and buying a car through the bank with the deposited money as collateral, along with its interest? And how can my father dispose of this money?

What is the ruling on borrowing money from family to cover the expenses of Hajj, on condition that the money is repaid before going for Hajj?

Is it permissible to sell building materials to a friend at a price higher than the government-subsidized purchase price, knowing that he does not have a license to purchase materials at the subsidized price?

What is the ruling on using the "Premium Card" which allows purchasing goods in installments over 10 months without interest, in exchange for an annual subscription fee of 75 EGP, with the installments being deducted directly from the salary monthly?

What is the method of repentance for not being able to repay a debt on time?

Is it permissible to borrow with interest from a bank to pay off debts, cover educational expenses, and meet essential needs?

Is it permissible to use or gift a shopping voucher, provided as a reward from Al-Baraka, resulting from the use of an uncovered Islamic credit card, with the commitment to pay dues on time?

Is it permissible to spend the interest gained from usury on buying food for cats?

Is it permissible to donate interest earnings from a national bank to extremely poor women who have no provider or source of income?

Is it permissible for students to leave a lesson to pray, and to hold religious lessons during study time without permission?

Is it permissible for me to keep 50 riyals as profit from purchasing 200 riyals worth of credit with my own money, after my father gave me 50 riyals to buy credit?

What is the expiation for swearing falsely in an administrative investigation concerning the husband, with coercion and without harming anyone?

What is the ruling on designing and programming a website to sell medical devices if it includes medical e-books that contain nude images of women and men, along with the client's request to upload these books in their entirety?

Is it permissible to pay the bank after the governorate has transferred the debt to it and started collecting installments from it, knowing that the unit price doubles with installment payments and the installments increase annually, and is this considered a usurious loan?