Interest and Riba
4,478 questions
How should a girl act with her family who borrow an exorbitant usurious loan to hold a lavish wedding, and she shares accommodation and meals with them, knowing the impermissibility of usurious money, and should she repay this loan later?
What is the ruling on settling old, accumulated debts stemming from interest on a financial deposit placed in a usurious bank?
Is it permissible to take an interest-free loan from a bank that deals with interest (riba) with its other customers?
Is it permissible to raise and sell chickens commercially on a granted government farm, given the impossibility of establishing a licensed poultry farm and financial inability, knowing that many people sell their farm produce without licenses?
Is it permissible to work on building a website for a company specialized in building banks?
Is it permissible to take out a personal loan to buy a taxi for the purpose of earning a livelihood and supporting the family, given the unavailability of an installment option?
What is the ruling on participating as a worker in a restaurant project whose capital comes from a usurious loan, knowing that the project owner offered the worker a share of the profit on condition that he undertakes the management of the project?
Is it permissible to wear a hijab sewn by one's mother based on a borrowed hijab from a neighbor who mocks religion, and should this neighbor be shunned?
What is the ruling on an agent who does not give his principals their rights, claiming that a certain group within the family is not entitled to inheritance, contrary to Sharia and law? And is there a reported supplication for this situation?
Is it permissible to conduct a transaction involving the sale of goods in installments through a loan company that intervenes in the sale and charges a file preparation fee of 150 dirhams, knowing that the selling price does not change whether the payment is made in one lump sum or in installments over 10 months?
Is it possible for ten devils to be present in one person, what is the effect of that, and how can they be removed?
What is the ruling on donating to a hospital via an interest-based bank account number?
Is taking profits from an on-demand investment account at Bank Misr's Islamic Transactions Branch permissible (halal) or forbidden (haram), keeping in mind that the parent bank is interest-based (ribawi) and the branch claims to operate according to Islamic Sharia, but without clarity regarding the investment method or the presence of Sharia supervision, and given that this branch is the only one available with an Islamic system in the governorate?
What is the ruling of Sharia on some contractors resorting to declaring in sales contracts that they are barter contracts (barter of real estate for real estate or movable property for real estate) before the official notary to avoid exorbitant tax costs, even though they are in fact sales contracts in which the seller received a sum of money?
Is it permissible for a father to rent two floors of his building to an interest-based bank, and is it permissible for the son to benefit from what the father gives him from this rent if the contract is concluded?
What is the ruling on a bank deposit with a fixed monthly return and a loan taken from it to purchase a car, both from the perspective of the deposit and the loan?
Is the government bank loan, which purchases an academic certificate for the borrower so that he can acquire the necessary equipment for a project, and then recovers the amount in installments with a 5% surplus after one year, considered usury, given that the bank is operating at a loss and is supported by the state?
Is the interest resulting from the compensation for expropriated land after one year of expropriation permissible or impermissible, and how should it be dealt with?
Is it permissible to continue a business partnership where half of its profit is doubtful, because the other partner paid for the machine he works with using an interest-based loan, even though the questioner's contribution was with lawful money?
Is it possible to review the previous fatwa regarding the cultural competition, given that the participant who buys the CD will not lose anything, but rather will benefit scientifically and morally, and the value of the accompanying programs exceeds the price of the CD?
Is the interest imposed on the Social Fund for Development's loans considered prohibited usury (riba), or is it in exchange for the services provided (training, marketing, tax exemption)? And is it permissible to finance projects through these loans?
Is a financial transaction, which stipulates the payment of monthly installments to an institution, and the institution pays an immediate sum to one of the heirs upon the death of the subscriber, then the total installments are divided equally between the institution and the heirs of the deceased, with deprivation for whoever violates the conditions, permissible on the basis that it is a form of cooperative insurance and donations, or impermissible due to its inclusion of gambling, usury, and unlawful stratagems?
What is the ruling on withdrawing a deposited amount from a usurious bank before the agreed-upon time, knowing that the bank takes a percentage for early withdrawal, and that the one who supports me financially does not approve of early withdrawal?
What is the ruling on disposing of interest-based gains acquired from the bank over three years, while keeping the principal amount in the same bank after canceling the interest?