The ruling on accepting bank gifts for holders of current accounts
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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, this questioner says: In the seventh month, there is a bank, and the bank says it will give me a luxurious Hijri calendar, and sometimes some gifts. Is it permissible for me to accept them, knowing that my account with them is a current account?
Answer:
This is a deception regarding interest. They deceive people in this way. It is permissible not to give the interest, because you see that it is riba (usury or interest), but they say, “We will give you gifts, we will give you gifts, we will give you books or perfume, or they say books, even the greatest of them say books, they say books they give as gifts, so that they mean to remove the suspicion of the unseen from themselves.” And sometimes they give him calendars or give him… Is this permissible? Because it is a deception regarding interest.
So it is not permissible to accept anything from them. And a deposit account for the purpose of safekeeping is permissible in case of dire necessity. But he does not take anything in return for interest or gifts or… It is not permissible. Yes.
Honorable Shaykh, this questioner says: In the seventh month, there is a bank, and the bank says it will give me a luxurious Hijri calendar, and sometimes some gifts. Is it permissible for me to accept them, knowing that my account with them is a current account?
Answer:
This is a deception regarding interest. They deceive people in this way. It is permissible not to give the interest, because you see that it is riba (usury or interest), but they say, “We will give you gifts, we will give you gifts, we will give you books or perfume, or they say books, even the greatest of them say books, they say books they give as gifts, so that they mean to remove the suspicion of the unseen from themselves.” And sometimes they give him calendars or give him… Is this permissible? Because it is a deception regarding interest.
So it is not permissible to accept anything from them. And a deposit account for the purpose of safekeeping is permissible in case of dire necessity. But he does not take anything in return for interest or gifts or… It is not permissible. Yes.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، اللقاء الأسبوعي-01 من 32-لفضيلة الشيخ صالح بن فوزان الفوزان -حفظه الله- مشروع كبار العلماء — youtube.com (57:05)
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