Paying a sum to a colleague's family in his country in exchange for a sum here
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The questioner:
He says: Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. This is a question similar to that one. He says: We are foreign students. Sometimes one of the colleagues with me in the same country asks me to give a specific sum to his family in that country, on the basis that he will give me the equivalent here in Riyadh. The time when his family receives the money is after I have received the equivalent in riyals here. Is this permissible?
The Shaykh:
Repeat the question.
The questioner:
We are foreign students. Sometimes one of the colleagues with me in the same country asks me to give a specific sum to his family in that country, on the basis that he will give me the equivalent there.
The Shaykh:
Do you send it, or do they take it from a sum you have there? Do they take it from a sum you have there, or do you send the money from here? This requires a distinction.
He says: Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. This is a question similar to that one. He says: We are foreign students. Sometimes one of the colleagues with me in the same country asks me to give a specific sum to his family in that country, on the basis that he will give me the equivalent here in Riyadh. The time when his family receives the money is after I have received the equivalent in riyals here. Is this permissible?
The Shaykh:
Repeat the question.
The questioner:
We are foreign students. Sometimes one of the colleagues with me in the same country asks me to give a specific sum to his family in that country, on the basis that he will give me the equivalent there.
The Shaykh:
Do you send it, or do they take it from a sum you have there? Do they take it from a sum you have there, or do you send the money from here? This requires a distinction.
Source
شرح أخصر المختصرات في الفقه، فصل: الربا نوعان: ربا فضل وربا نسيئة — islamhouse.com (57:27)
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