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﴿ فَاسْأَلُوا أَهْلَ الذِّكْرِ إِن كُنتُمْ لَا تَعْلَمُونَ ﴾

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Money as an end-of-service gratuity from a riba (usury or interest) financing company

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Question:
The questioner says: A man works for a financing company, and it is a riba (usury or interest) company. When his employment ended, they gave him a sum of money in exchange for the years of work he had spent. Then he distributed the money to his wife and his two sons. What is the ruling on this money in terms of trust?

Answer:
This is haram (forbidden). He does not give his children and his wife haram (forbidden) things, nor does he feed them with haram (forbidden) things, may Allah protect us from that. No, he does not take, he does not take the riba (usury or interest) profits. He takes only his principal capital and repents to Allah, and he takes his principal capital.
But if you repent, you may have your principal - [thus] you do no wrong, nor are you wronged.وَإِن تُبْتُمْ فَلَكُمْ رُءُوسُ أَمْوَالِكُمْ لَا تَظْلِمُونَ وَلَا تُظْلَمُونَ
[Al-Baqarah 2:279]
He does not take the riba (usury or interest); he leaves it. He does not take it and say, "I will give it to my children and not give it in charity," for that is not permissible. Yes.

The presenter:
May Allah reward you,
Source قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، 25 من 26/تعليق على كتاب تفسير آيات من القرآن الكريم/النفي والإثبات/صالح الفوزان/التفسير/كبار العلماء — youtube.com (1:06:38)

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