Islam Asked by Najeeb on December 28, 2021
Assalaamu aleikum, this query has been on my mind for quite a while now.
I was wondering if it is ok to pay interest debts with interest money.
For instance, I have a few friends who’s bank accounts have accrued interest monies and they really are at a loss to figure out how to deal with the excess amount getting reflected in their accounts. A couple of times I advised these friends to find some needy chap who is indebted to a bank and pay off his interest with the excess interest money in their account.
I thought this may be right, but then thinking a little harder, it seems like there are two sins involved in this: the sin of using interest money and that of paying off interest.
Jazakallahu khairan.
I think if someone has a debt that he cannot afford to pay and if Riba is accumulating..then in this case to save someone from Riba ...the person that has accumulated Riba because he has a lot of money in the bank ..should be allowed to help that person and save him from Riba . I'm just thinking this way it will help the person and free him from debt
But...ALLAH KNOWS BEST
Answered by Nazirah EBRAHIM on December 28, 2021
Wa'alikum as-salaam,
There are two issues in your question:
1) What to do with interest money? 2) What to do with debts?
As for the first: no, it's not permissible to pay back interest debts with interest money. In fact, it's not permissible to use interest at all.
The basic ruling is that Allah prohibited interest in the Qur'an. In Surah Baqarah, verse 225 (excerpt):
They say "ribaa is like trade/commerce." But Allah has prohibited riba, and allowed trade."
The root is that riba money isn't yours. It doesn't belong to you.
The scholars differed over what to do. Some say you should take that money and give it away to charity, but not expect a reward for it. Others say, don't touch it, just leave it indefinitely (until you close your account and the bank eats it back).
The safest thing to do, obviously, is ask for an interest-free account, or move to a bank that offers it. There are quite a few that do so these days, walhamdulillah.
As for your debt, you should pay it back as soon as possible, using pure and clean money. In one hadith, about a man who died shaheed in battle, rasulullah said:
Who will pay back his debt, because it's preventing his soul from entering Paradise.
And Allah knows best.
Answered by ashes999 on December 28, 2021
Paying debts is obligatory, but to perform an obligation or kindness or a way to be done with a good source.
Such as the corruption of money and we use it for pilgrimage .. Allah Ta'ala will not like it
Remember that one of the reasons we have to pay the debt is due to Allah Almighty who commanded, so did also the way that Allah Ta'ala like
Wallahu a'lam
Answered by matzone on December 28, 2021
Source: http://islamqa.info/en/ref/81952
According to the source above:
Give the interest money you received to charity, so someone in debt to the bank can use other's interest money to pay off his debt
This does not mean that everyone should start earning more interest to give to charity, it's infact the exact opposite.
Answered by oshirowanen on December 28, 2021
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