Interest and Riba
4,478 questions
Are the brothers entitled to demand a house as compensation for their house that was sold by their brother at their mother's request?
What is the religious ruling on the permissibility of the activity of a company that sells cars in installments, then sells the promissory notes to a bank at a discount, and charges the customer a higher interest rate without taking additional amounts for late payment?
What is the ruling on the interest added by the usurious bank to the original amount deposited by the father in his son's name, and is this interest considered the son's right? What should the son do if this interest is forbidden, and his family refuses to dispose of it, and should he give them this interest to avoid problems and severing ties of kinship?
What is the ruling on working in agricultural service banks and depositing money in them?
Is it permissible to take out an interest-bearing housing loan from a bank that mortgages the land and house with a 2% interest rate paid in installments, knowing that the house becomes the property of the bank until the full amount is repaid?
Is a bank loan that covers a deficit in the balance to pay checks, in exchange for repaying the amount with an increase at the end of the year, considered usury?
Is it permissible to take out a usurious loan from a bank for construction, given that the questioner's current dwelling poses a danger to his and his family's lives, and there is no other way to build?
Is it permissible to pay the Zakat on a son's money in France using Algerian currency, and is it permissible for him to take interest from banks under the pretext that he is not being raised among Muslims?
Is it permissible to buy a government financial grant allocated for building a house from another person to whom this grant was designated, and he was unable to start building due to lack of funds, either by paying the amount directly or after receiving the first installment from the state?
What is the ruling on purchasing land or a house through a Western bank in Europe?
What should a minor do who inherited a savings account in a usurious bank, and is it permissible for him to withdraw the money without the interest when he reaches adulthood?
Is it permissible or forbidden to borrow from banks to pay off a debt that would avoid imprisonment, with the intention of repaying the full amount in a single installment to avoid interest?
What is the ruling on benefiting from the milk of a cow purchased with a usurious loan? Is drinking its milk considered consuming ill-gotten gains? Is it permissible to dispose of its price if it is sold? What should the father do to rid himself of the sin of usury? Is it permissible for the children to help in feeding it?
Is it permissible to participate in a charitable project funded by usurious money if it aims to help poor families, and is it permissible for the participants to take profits from their own money, knowing that all remaining usurious money will be spent on the poor?
Is it permissible for someone who has been consulted about the sale of a property to annul this sale under the pretext that he can find a better price, while his true intention is that he has no personal interest in it?
What is the ruling on using bank interest to live on, for a woman who has no provider other than money in the bank, or for girls whose father abandoned them and who live on interest after their relatives abandoned them?
Is it permissible to sell and divide a building owned by an elderly, sick man who has lost his mind, and what is the ruling on the divided money if the children and wife insist on selling despite it not being permissible?
What is the ruling on video recording celebrations and seminars?
Is it permissible for me to take the money my colleague gave me in exchange for help he received, knowing that I had told him that the two thousand riyals were not mine?
Is it permissible to use bank guarantees for a specified percentage of their value and for a limited period?
Is it permissible for me to leave the usurious funds added to my bank account and instead give out their equivalent from my own money?
Is it permissible to dispose of money received as debt repayment, given the suspicion that its source is part of unlawful earnings that were distributed to the needy and then returned as debt repayment?
Should the young man return to his old school to study a major he doesn't desire, just to be with his friends, or should he remain in the new school despite feeling boredom and depression due to his inability to adapt and the lack of close friends?
Is it forbidden to consume money from bank profits if the father is not working, and withdrawing the money would lead to its depletion and the unavailability of necessary treatment expenses for the sick mother?