Employment in Riba-Based Banks
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Question:
The questioner says: Your Eminence the Shaykh! As-salamu alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh. After that, she says: I have finished my stage of education and applied for jobs, but I was not accepted anywhere except in a bank. My father said, "You are a girl in the stage of education," and I applied for positions, but I was not accepted except in the bank. Please advise us. May Allah reward you a thousand times with good.
Answer:
Therefore, it is not permissible to work in banks. Banks are based on riba (usury or interest), and it is not permissible to work in them, whether for men or women. Working in banks is not permissible because they deal in riba. Allah, Mighty and Majestic, says:[Al-Hadid 57:28] So beware of riba if you are believers. If you do not do so, then be aware of a war from Allah and His Messenger. And the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said in an authentic hadith that he (peace and blessings be upon him) Sunan an-Nasa'i 5103Hasan (Darussalam) and his two witnesses. And Allah, the Exalted, says: [Al-Ma'idah 5:2] Therefore, it is not permissible to cooperate with banks in jobs or other riba-based transactions, whether by men or women. We ask Allah to guide them, and we ask Allah to destroy these banks and replace them with Islamic banks. We ask Allah to guide those who run them, to turn them back with a beautiful turning, to establish them on Islamic transactions, and to help us and them against the obedience of desires and Satan. Yes.
The questioner says: Your Eminence the Shaykh! As-salamu alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh. After that, she says: I have finished my stage of education and applied for jobs, but I was not accepted anywhere except in a bank. My father said, "You are a girl in the stage of education," and I applied for positions, but I was not accepted except in the bank. Please advise us. May Allah reward you a thousand times with good.
Answer:
Therefore, it is not permissible to work in banks. Banks are based on riba (usury or interest), and it is not permissible to work in them, whether for men or women. Working in banks is not permissible because they deal in riba. Allah, Mighty and Majestic, says:
O you who have believed, fear Allah
يَا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا اتَّقُوا اللَّهَcursed the one who consumes Riba, the one who pays it, the one who writes it down
لعن آكل الربا وموكله وكاتبهAnd cooperate in righteousness and piety, but do not cooperate in sin and aggression.
وَتَعَاوَنُوا عَلَى الْبِرِّ وَالتَّقْوَىٰ وَلَا تَعَاوَنُوا عَلَى الْإِثْمِ وَالْعُدْوَانِ
Source
لقاءات لابن باز - لقاء مفتوح - ابن باز - ٢٩-٧-١٤١٧ هـ — archive.org (22:30)
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