Text copied Link copied

Al-Fatawa – home

﴿ فَاسْأَلُوا أَهْلَ الذِّكْرِ إِن كُنتُمْ لَا تَعْلَمُونَ ﴾

Scholar
Search mode

The ruling on donating to a charitable organization that has an account in a riba (usury or interest) bank

Machine translationRead the Arabic original
Question:
Your Eminence the Shaykh, the questioner asks: Is it permissible to give zakah and voluntary charity to the charitable organization through its account in riba banks? What? The questioner asks: Is it permissible to give zakah and voluntary charity to charitable organizations through their accounts in riba banks? Because their account does not mean riba; it means preservation, with

Answer:
with preservation, but they should make their account in a place other than the banks of the ummah so that the people of affairs do not rely on them. Their accounts should be in non-riba places, such as al-Rajhi, al-Sabai, or trading establishments that do not have riba, so as not to assist the people of riba, even if they do not engage in riba themselves. But if they place their account in a place that has no riba, it is further from suspicion and from shubhah (a doubtful matter).
Source قناة «فضيلة الشيخ ابن باز Alsheikh Binbaz»، 388 حكم التبرع لهيئة خيرية لها حساب في بنك ربوي للإمام ابن باز — youtube.com

The Arabic text is a machine transcription of the audio recording.

Flag this fatwa