Refuting the calls to borrow from riba (usury or interest) banks in the newspapers
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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, recently, calls have spread through the daily newspapers to borrow from riba (usury or interest) banks through riba (usury or interest) wars. What do you see as the response to this?
Answer:
What about those in the same newspapers who declare people to be disbelievers because of that? I see that Muslims should not pay attention to these advertisements and should reject them completely. They should advise their brothers, and I see that the preachers in the mosques and the imams in the five daily prayers should alert the Muslims. If every imam and every preacher had warned about these matters and cautioned against them, the response to these people would have been achieved and their advertisements would have been defeated. But it is the silence that has encouraged these people to continue. Otherwise, if they had faced denunciation on the minbars and after the prayers in the mosques, this would not have happened. And in the gatherings, this boldness would not have come from them.
Honorable Shaykh, recently, calls have spread through the daily newspapers to borrow from riba (usury or interest) banks through riba (usury or interest) wars. What do you see as the response to this?
Answer:
What about those in the same newspapers who declare people to be disbelievers because of that? I see that Muslims should not pay attention to these advertisements and should reject them completely. They should advise their brothers, and I see that the preachers in the mosques and the imams in the five daily prayers should alert the Muslims. If every imam and every preacher had warned about these matters and cautioned against them, the response to these people would have been achieved and their advertisements would have been defeated. But it is the silence that has encouraged these people to continue. Otherwise, if they had faced denunciation on the minbars and after the prayers in the mosques, this would not have happened. And in the gatherings, this boldness would not have come from them.
Source
شرح الكافية الشافية في الانتصار للفرقة الناجية [ القصيدة النونية ] [ صالح الفوزان ]، بداية من قوله : يا فرقة التنقيص بل يا أمة الدعوى بلا علم ولا عرفان — islamhouse.com (46:33)
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