The Ruling on Safinah and Transferring Money Through an Agent

The questioner:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. This questioner says: My method of sending money to my country is as follows: I give the money to a man here in Saudi riyals, and he contacts his agent in the other country, who delivers it to my father in the currency of that country. Is this transaction permissible?

The Shaykh:
This is permissible out of need. This is called the suftaja. It is called the suftaja. You give dirhams to a person here, dirhams in Saudi currency, and this person contacts his counterpart in his country, telling them to give them the currency of the country where they are. There is nothing wrong with this. This is the matter of the suftaja. Yes.

The questioner:
Honorable Shaykh.

The Shaykh:
When you gave him the money, you became a debt in his possession. A debt in his possession. And he contacted the people of his counterpart there to give them the exchange of this money. The custom is that the exchange must be hand to hand. But this is permissible in the suftaja because of people’s need for it. Yes.