How to dispose of the checks that come from an interest-based bank in which one is a shareholder
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A person invested in one of the interest-based banks about twenty years ago, and checks from this bank come to him from time to time, so he does not know how to deal with them.
؟The Shaykh: Checks, what kind of papers?The questioner: They are profits from the bank.
So he is asking now how to deal with them: should he sell the shares and get rid of them, or should he take these profits?The Shaykh: The problem is, if he sells them, to whom does he sell them?The questioner: To other people.
The Shaykh: Do they deal in riba (usury or interest)?The questioner: Yes, that is correct.
The Shaykh: Then he has assisted in riba (usury or interest).
The questioner: Yes, that is correct.
The Shaykh: I see that he should remain as he is, but the profits that come—And I say: Profits according to custom, otherwise they are not profits, they are a loss—He says to the bank: I do not want them.
The questioner: What they call it,They say: Take them.
The Shaykh: So if they say: We do not accept them, put them on the table, we are not responsible for you, then he takes them and gives them in charity.
The questioner: They send them by mail.
The Shaykh: Even if they send them by mail, he returns them by mail,But if they say: We do not accept them at all, so he takes them and gives them in charity.
The questioner: He gives them in charity with the intention of getting rid of them?The Shaykh: Yes, with the intention of getting rid of them, not with the intention of drawing near to Allah.
؟The Shaykh: Checks, what kind of papers?The questioner: They are profits from the bank.
So he is asking now how to deal with them: should he sell the shares and get rid of them, or should he take these profits?The Shaykh: The problem is, if he sells them, to whom does he sell them?The questioner: To other people.
The Shaykh: Do they deal in riba (usury or interest)?The questioner: Yes, that is correct.
The Shaykh: Then he has assisted in riba (usury or interest).
The questioner: Yes, that is correct.
The Shaykh: I see that he should remain as he is, but the profits that come—And I say: Profits according to custom, otherwise they are not profits, they are a loss—He says to the bank: I do not want them.
The questioner: What they call it,They say: Take them.
The Shaykh: So if they say: We do not accept them, put them on the table, we are not responsible for you, then he takes them and gives them in charity.
The questioner: They send them by mail.
The Shaykh: Even if they send them by mail, he returns them by mail,But if they say: We do not accept them at all, so he takes them and gives them in charity.
The questioner: He gives them in charity with the intention of getting rid of them?The Shaykh: Yes, with the intention of getting rid of them, not with the intention of drawing near to Allah.