What is the ruling on giving zakat to a person who has an interest-bearing loan from a bank to buy a house, with the aim of helping him repay the loan and escape its prohibition?
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The person who engaged in usury must first repent to Allah. It is permissible to give to a person who is indebted due to his involvement in usury because he is considered among the gharimin (those in debt), and based on Sheikh Ibn Uthaymin's permissibility of giving him from zakat, distinguishing between the principal and the usurious excess. If the state waives the usurious excess, then the debtor should not be given from it. However, if the state enforces it, then he may be given from it.
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