What is the ruling on working in riba-based banks?

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The questioner : His EminenceThe Shaykh : I work in one of the riba-based banks, and I have heard from some scholars that working in banks is forbidden. I ask your eminence to inform me?

The Shaykh : Yes, we have previously answered a question like this, and we said that anyone who assists another in disobedience to Allah is a partner with him in that disobedience, due to the saying of Allah the Exalted:

And it has already come down to you in the Book that when you hear the verses of Allah [recited], they are denied [by them] and ridiculed; so do not sit with them until they enter into another conversation. Indeed, you would then be like them

وَقَدْ نَزَّلَ عَلَيْكُمْ فِي الْكِتَابِ أَنْ إِذَا سَمِعْتُمْ آيَاتِ اللَّهِ يُكْفَرُ بِهَا وَيُسْتَهْزَأُ بِهَا فَلَا تَقْعُدُوا مَعَهُمْ حَتَّى يَخُوضُوا فِي حَدِيثٍ غَيْرِهِ إِنَّكُمْ إِذًا مِثْلُهُمْ

[An-Nisa 4:140]

And because if a person helps one who works in disobedience to Allah, he has contradicted the saying of Allah the Exalted:

but do not cooperate in sin and aggression

ولا تعاونوا على الإثم والعدوان

[Al-Ma'idah 5:2]

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