The ruling on one who borrows from riba banks: Does he become a disbeliever?
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Question:
Also, Shaykh (may Allah preserve you), is one who wants to inherit from riba banks considered to be treating riba as permissible, such that he is declared a disbeliever, or is the ruling of declaring him a disbeliever averted from him? This is because the issue of inheriting from banks in the countries is, due to the trial, related to the funds of several riba banks?
Answer:
There is a difference between one who denies the prohibition of riba in general; this person is ruled to be a disbeliever, he is ruled to be a disbeliever, because Allah has forbidden riba, and the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) has forbidden it, and the Muslims have agreed upon its prohibition. But as for some issues that are disputed, whether they are from riba or not? We told you that in what is disputed, the one who differs is not ruled to be a disbeliever, given the existence of the disagreement. If there is a difference in an issue, whether it is from riba or not, and one person says, "This is permissible because it is not from riba," and the second person says, "This is forbidden because it is riba," we say, "This is a disputed issue, so we do not rule that the one who differs is a disbeliever, even though we rule that he is in error and has contradicted the evidence. But we do not rule that he is a disbeliever, given the existence of the disagreement. Some issues of riba have disagreement in them, so the one who differs in them is not declared a disbeliever, even though he is in error and is misguided, and it is said to him, "You have erred, and this is contrary to the truth."
Also, Shaykh (may Allah preserve you), is one who wants to inherit from riba banks considered to be treating riba as permissible, such that he is declared a disbeliever, or is the ruling of declaring him a disbeliever averted from him? This is because the issue of inheriting from banks in the countries is, due to the trial, related to the funds of several riba banks?
Answer:
There is a difference between one who denies the prohibition of riba in general; this person is ruled to be a disbeliever, he is ruled to be a disbeliever, because Allah has forbidden riba, and the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) has forbidden it, and the Muslims have agreed upon its prohibition. But as for some issues that are disputed, whether they are from riba or not? We told you that in what is disputed, the one who differs is not ruled to be a disbeliever, given the existence of the disagreement. If there is a difference in an issue, whether it is from riba or not, and one person says, "This is permissible because it is not from riba," and the second person says, "This is forbidden because it is riba," we say, "This is a disputed issue, so we do not rule that the one who differs is a disbeliever, even though we rule that he is in error and has contradicted the evidence. But we do not rule that he is a disbeliever, given the existence of the disagreement. Some issues of riba have disagreement in them, so the one who differs in them is not declared a disbeliever, even though he is in error and is misguided, and it is said to him, "You have erred, and this is contrary to the truth."
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، 87 من 89|شرح العدة في شرح العمدة|كتاب الحدود|باب حكم المرتد|صالح الفوزان|الفقه|كبار العلماء — youtube.com (55:16)
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