The Repentant Person’s Disposal of Interest
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The questioner:
Standing between the glorifications, may Allah expand your horizons. There is a man who used to deal in riba (usury or interest), may Allah protect us from it, and he repented to Allah. He took his principal and wanted to get rid of the interest. Is it permissible for this interest to be taken and given to a man who is in debt, from the money, as a way of getting rid of the unlawful money?
The Shaykh:
If he repents from riba and he has money that came to him from riba, he disposes of it to get rid of it in a public project, because it is lost money that he has no right to, or in these public projects. As for the riba that he has not received, it is not permissible for him to receive it after the revolution, meaning he should look at what is less and the messenger of the majority.
The questioner:
He takes the principal
The Shaykh:
of his money.
Standing between the glorifications, may Allah expand your horizons. There is a man who used to deal in riba (usury or interest), may Allah protect us from it, and he repented to Allah. He took his principal and wanted to get rid of the interest. Is it permissible for this interest to be taken and given to a man who is in debt, from the money, as a way of getting rid of the unlawful money?
The Shaykh:
If he repents from riba and he has money that came to him from riba, he disposes of it to get rid of it in a public project, because it is lost money that he has no right to, or in these public projects. As for the riba that he has not received, it is not permissible for him to receive it after the revolution, meaning he should look at what is less and the messenger of the majority.
The questioner:
He takes the principal
The Shaykh:
of his money.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، 141/82 شرح زاد المستقنع/ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com (10:48)
The Arabic text is a machine transcription of the audio recording.