The ruling on acting as a broker to lease a building to a riba (usury or interest) bank, and the ruling on selling it to another
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Question:
He says: Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. A person owns a commercial building and has leased it to a riba bank. Now the owner of the building wants to sell it to another person. The question is: if I act as a broker between the seller and the buyer, will I be sinful? Knowing that the bank has no relation to the sale, not in the slightest?
Answer:
If you act as a broker to lease it to the bank, it is not permissible; because this is assisting in riba, in usury. But if you act as a broker in selling it to someone other than the bank, in a known, honest sale, there is nothing wrong with it. Yes.
He says: Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. A person owns a commercial building and has leased it to a riba bank. Now the owner of the building wants to sell it to another person. The question is: if I act as a broker between the seller and the buyer, will I be sinful? Knowing that the bank has no relation to the sale, not in the slightest?
Answer:
If you act as a broker to lease it to the bank, it is not permissible; because this is assisting in riba, in usury. But if you act as a broker in selling it to someone other than the bank, in a known, honest sale, there is nothing wrong with it. Yes.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، [1398 -2802] حكم السمسرة لتأجير عمارة على بنك ربوي، وحكم بيعها على آخر - الشيخ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com
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