Answering a call from one known for leniency or for consuming riba (usury or interest)
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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. A questioner says: If a person is known for being lenient or for consuming riba (usury or interest), and he invites me to a wedding feast, is it permissible for me to decline the invitation for this reason?
Answer:
If he has mixed wealth from what is lawful and what is forbidden, you eat and accept the invitation, eating on the assumption that it is from what is lawful. The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) used to eat from the food of the Jews, even though they dealt in riba, because not all of their earnings were from riba; some of it was riba and some was not. So you proceed on the basis that this food is not from what is forbidden, unless you know that it is from what is forbidden. If you know that it is from what is forbidden, then do not eat it. Yes.
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. A questioner says: If a person is known for being lenient or for consuming riba (usury or interest), and he invites me to a wedding feast, is it permissible for me to decline the invitation for this reason?
Answer:
If he has mixed wealth from what is lawful and what is forbidden, you eat and accept the invitation, eating on the assumption that it is from what is lawful. The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) used to eat from the food of the Jews, even though they dealt in riba, because not all of their earnings were from riba; some of it was riba and some was not. So you proceed on the basis that this food is not from what is forbidden, unless you know that it is from what is forbidden. If you know that it is from what is forbidden, then do not eat it. Yes.
Source
المنتقى من أخبار سيد المرسلين 18-07-1438هـ — alfawzan.live (1:02:42)
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