Is it permissible to agree with my father to take out a loan with riba (usury or interest) for my urgent need to get married?
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Question:
May Allah reward you, Honorable Shaykh. This questioner says: I am a young man, twenty-nine years old, and, praise be to Allah, I am upright upon the religion of Allah. My question is that my father takes a loan, meaning riba, and marries me off. If I agree to this, will the sin attach to me, even though I find myself in urgent need of marriage and I fear for myself from fitnah (trial, discord or temptation)?
Answer:
No, it is not permissible for you, my brother, to agree to marriage from riba. This is haram (forbidden). It is not permissible for you to agree to it, and there is no obedience to a created being in disobedience to the Creator.[An-Nur 24:33] Nor do they take haram (forbidden) money to marry with.
It is haram (forbidden) and not permissible. And riba is the most severe of the prohibitions because Allah threatened it with types of warning that He did not threaten with for anything else of its kind. So it is the most severe of the prohibitions regarding earnings. It is not permissible to use it, neither in marriage nor in anything else.
Rather, you must be patient and seek provision and a trade until you find what you can marry with.[An-Nur 24:33] You must make du'a' (supplication), you must be patient, and you must do the permissible means. [At-Talaq 65:3] Yes.
May Allah reward you, Honorable Shaykh. This questioner says: I am a young man, twenty-nine years old, and, praise be to Allah, I am upright upon the religion of Allah. My question is that my father takes a loan, meaning riba, and marries me off. If I agree to this, will the sin attach to me, even though I find myself in urgent need of marriage and I fear for myself from fitnah (trial, discord or temptation)?
Answer:
No, it is not permissible for you, my brother, to agree to marriage from riba. This is haram (forbidden). It is not permissible for you to agree to it, and there is no obedience to a created being in disobedience to the Creator.
But let them who find not [the means for] marriage abstain [from sexual relations] until Allah enriches them from His bounty.
وَلْيَسْتَعْفِفِ الَّذِينَ لَا يَجِدُونَ نِكَاحًا حَتَّىٰ يُغْنِيَهُمُ اللَّهُ مِن فَضْلِهِIt is haram (forbidden) and not permissible. And riba is the most severe of the prohibitions because Allah threatened it with types of warning that He did not threaten with for anything else of its kind. So it is the most severe of the prohibitions regarding earnings. It is not permissible to use it, neither in marriage nor in anything else.
Rather, you must be patient and seek provision and a trade until you find what you can marry with.
But let them who find not [the means for] marriage abstain [from sexual relations] until Allah enriches them from His bounty.
وَلْيَسْتَعْفِفِ الَّذِينَ لَا يَجِدُونَ نِكَاحًا حَتَّىٰ يُغْنِيَهُمُ اللَّهُ مِن فَضْلِهِAnd whoever relies upon Allah - then He is sufficient for him.
وَمَن يَتَوَكَّلْ عَلَى اللَّهِ فَهُوَ حَسْبُهُ
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، هل يجوز موافقة أبي في الاقتراض بالربا من أجل حاجتي الشديدة للزواج؟ لمعالي الشيخ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com
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