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  • Questionable financial practices in UN

    I work one of the United Nations Organizations in Somalia. I would like to ask you the following very important questions:I work as an accountant and I do all financial related tasks. Our headquarters is in Nairobi Kenya. This organization has a number of sub-offices in Somalia and implements number of projects in this country. When this UN organization.. More

  • Pay later but with increased payments

    I live in the USA. I want to go to a school to get a training to drive big trucks, so I can work as driver. All schools require the full payment for this training at the beginning, but if you can't pay the full price you can pay after you finish training but with a certain interest added to the payment. Is the interest added count as Riba? .. More

  • Bought Car on Interest

    I bought a car 2 years ago and it was not financed through an Islamic bank, and I regret now. The bank already took its interest (7000 AED) just small interest (1000 AED)is remaining. Shall I continue paying the installments till the end of the agreement date or sell the car in lost? The bank doesn't want me to return the car, but to transfer it someone.. More

  • Eating where an interest loan is taken

    I have a job with sufficent salary to take care of me and I live away from my family. But every weekend I pay a visit to my family. Anyway my father deals with interests, he has taken a loan thus pays interest. When I go home on the weekend I have to eat from my home, of course. What should I do?. I know food from interest is haram but if I don't eat.. More

  • Financial dealing with one whose wealth is a mixture of Halal and Haram

    If I tutor the son of banker, English lessons, is it Halal to take the money he pays me for the tutoring? I don't know where all his money comes from, but I know that he is a bank director, so his money, (I suppose) is Riba! Please guide me may Allah guide you!.. More

  • Helping in mortgage payments

    My main concern is that mortgage payments contain (Riba) interest, I wanted to know if it is ok for me to pay for my brother's mortgage for his house from the money provided by him, also keeping in mind that I don't live in that house. Please let me know if I am incurring any sin?.. More

  • Different views about Riba

    I would like to know the reason for the different views concerning Riba in order to get a house. Some Ulamah allow Riba as Qaradhawi , and others forbid it. .. More

  • Car loans by Algerian bank

    Are the loans on cars purchase bestowed by the bank "Baraka Algeria" is compliant with Islamic Sharia?.. More

  • Living with a Riba transaction

    My parents are divorced and I am living with my mother in my grandfather's house. Life in my grandfather's house is not comfortable as we are 8 persons, and my mother is depressed and sick of it. She is so nervous that I am sometimes afraid that she looses her mind. After 28 years, my father offered to buy a house for my mother and myself. I choose.. More

  • Taking a Loan to Repay Debts

    We know Riba (interest) is Haram and is a major sin. What is the ruling for a bankrupt person to take a loan with interest if there is no other way to pay back his debts? He has loans as debts whose interest keeps on multiplying. Can he take this loan with interest to pay all this back or else what should he do? .. More

  • Accepting gifts and cash from donor whose income is from bank interest

    Can I accept and use the gifts and cash from my grandmother whose only source of income is bank interest? Please advice what Islamic law says about this... More

  • Family Dealings With Usury Banks

    My father has two sons and I am the younger one. My father shares a business with his partner who has one son. Our family are not practicing Muslims. As a matter of fact, my father and his partner have accounts in non-Islamic bank that deals with usury with its consumers. I asked my father to shift his account to an Islamic bank and once he talked to.. More

  • Riding in car purchased with Riba

    Can I drive my friend's car or let him pick me up, if I knew that he bought his car with interest (Riba)?.. More

  • Bank Account and Spending Mixed with Interest

    I have an amount of money in a western bank. Usually, I cut my 2.5 percentage Zakaat from the total amount. I have been doing so for a long time before I knew now that the interest is forbidden. Please explain my situation. Furthermore, I spent some money mixed with interest on my family, bought a house, and went to ‘Umrah before I knew that interest.. More

  • Education financed from sale of house bought on interest

    I am a student doing masters in a university in USA. I am from a Muslim country in Asia. Its my second semester here. In first semester of studies I got financial support from my parents. Now I am supporting my finances on my own. In my first semester my parents paid for my expenses from the money they got from selling a house which they had built taking.. More