Interest and Riba
4,478 questions
Is it permissible to mortgage a plot of land—which I bought with great difficulty for the purpose of building a house—to a usurious bank in order to obtain a sum of money, so as to invest it in a small project that helps meet the household's needs and treat the sick daughter, and then repay the mortgage with interest from the project's profits and retrieve the land?
Is it permissible to play free electronic games that offer huge financial prizes, and is it lawful to accept prizes received after ceasing to play, especially if some of these prizes require shipping fees, or if the website is associated with gambling casinos or Christian proselytizing sites?
What is the ruling on employees taking housing loans from their institution through a usurious bank, with the institution bearing the interest?
Is it permissible to rent financial papers to enter a certain country, then return them after customs for a sum exceeding their value?
How can an employee who does not understand business invest his saved money to avoid the decline in its purchasing power, while staying away from usury and the suspicions surrounding banks, and without risking his small savings?
What is the ruling on buying a house or getting married with an interest-bearing loan? Is it permissible to close a bank account and not repay the loan, even if it leads to imprisonment or confiscation of land? Is it possible to continue paying installments after receiving a salary? Is it permissible to donate the entire loan to a mosque or a charity, or to give it to one's brother and bear the penalty of usury? Is it valid to study abroad with this loan? Is Umrah or Hajj accepted from one who has an interest-bearing loan?
Is it permissible to borrow from a charitable endowment fund that exceeds its needs, by calculating the cost of apartments built from the surplus revenue of the charitable endowment, then setting their value at a multiplied price and offering them to those interested in contributing to the endowment, so that the contributor pays the multiplied amount and the apartment becomes a general charitable endowment in their name under the management of the institution, and then the multiplied amount is returned to the endowment? And does returning the multiplied loan fall under the category of a loan that brings benefit?
Is the process of purchasing a computer with financing from an institution or a bank, where the beneficiary provides an invoice to the bank, which approves the purchase and pays the seller, and then the beneficiary repays the bank in installments with a specified increase, considered a form of Murabaha, and what is the difference between it and Fatwa No. 1608, and if it is not Murabaha, what is the solution?
Is lending money to farmers, then buying their crops and dealing with them like any other merchant, considered forbidden usury (riba), even though it facilitates things for them and saves them from usurious borrowing?
Is it permissible to visit a deliberate murderer who has been released from prison?
Is money earned from a savings account, to which usurious interest is added, lawful or unlawful? And does it become lawful if the usurious interest is removed from it?
What is the ruling on working at a car dealership in Algeria that deals with both Islamic and usurious banks to finance car purchases?
What is the religious ruling and what should a young man do who has repented to Allah after having been alone with his fiancée, whom he had promised to marry, then the engagement was dissolved and her guardian came to know what had happened?
What is the legal ruling on dealing with usurious Algerian banks to establish institutions to confront economic colonialism and achieve self-sufficiency, given the absence of Islamic banks? Is it permissible for a university student or a young person to borrow from a usurious bank when they are unable to repay the loan within a year?
Am I obliged to return stolen financial trusts to their owner from my own money, and is it permissible for me to return them from bank interest?
Is it permissible for me to lie to someone who asked me why I didn't answer their call, in order to avoid upsetting them?
What is the ruling on paying for the natural gas connection fee in installments with annual interest?
Is it permissible for a treasurer to benefit from the price difference between wholesale prices and pro forma invoices when purchasing supplies for which no invoices are issued from wholesale markets?
Are the funds and returns resulting from investment certificates distributed by the state to citizens, which are invested in riba-based companies and banks, permissible (halal)? And are the salaries or purchases (such as housing and cars) derived from them permissible (halal)?
Is it permissible to use haram interest and profits from employment compensations and savings in a usurious bank to pay off a housing loan that involves haram from the same bank, in order to be rid of the haram in both instances?
What is the ruling on hunting animals such as foxes, elephants, and rhinoceroses to benefit from their hides and tusks for medicinal purposes and adornment, knowing that these acts are internationally criminalized due to their causing the extinction of these animals?
Can the practice of masturbation be considered a means of satisfying an abnormal sexual urge (sodomy) and preventing adultery? Is marriage permissible for someone with an inclination towards men, without satisfying the wife, taking into account the strength of desire in youth and the fear of abandoning religion due to the fatwas of some preachers?
Is the loyalty bonus that the bank adds to saved money also considered usury, like other bank interest?
Does the lack of blessing in money, children, and one's spouse stem from the husband's dealings with usurious banks, and what is the solution to this problem?