What is the best solution for getting rid of usurious profits?
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The questioner : The honorable Shaykh, a person invested in one of the usurious banks about twenty years ago, and from time to time he receives checks from this bank. He does not know how to deal with them?
The Shaykh : Checks, what do you mean? Papers?
The questioner : Profits, yes, that is right.
The Shaykh : Profits.
The questioner : Profits from the bank. So he is asking now how to deal with them. Should I sell the shares and get rid of them, or what? Or should I take these profits?
The Shaykh : The problem is, if he sells them, to whom does he sell them?
The questioner : He sells them to other people.
The Shaykh : Who deal in usury?
The questioner : Yes, I do.
The Shaykh : So he is assisting in usury, do you understand?
The questioner : Yes, I do.
The Shaykh : I see that he should remain as he is, that he should remain as he is. But the profits that come—and I say: profits according to custom, otherwise they are not profit, they are a loss—he says to the bank: I do not want them.
The questioner : They do not leave it; they say: Take it.
The Shaykh : So if they say: We do not accept it, put it in the safe, it is not our concern, he takes it and gives it in charity.
The questioner : They send it by mail.
The Shaykh : Listen, if it is good, even if they send it by mail, he returns it by mail. But if it happens that they say: No, we do not accept it at all, put it in the safe, then he takes it and gives it in charity.
The questioner : He gives it in charity with the intention of getting rid of it?The Shaykh : Yes, with the intention of getting rid of it. Yes, with the intention of getting rid of it, not with the intention of drawing near to Allah.
The questioner : Not with the intention of drawing near to Allah.
The Shaykh : Yes, exactly.
The Shaykh : Checks, what do you mean? Papers?
The questioner : Profits, yes, that is right.
The Shaykh : Profits.
The questioner : Profits from the bank. So he is asking now how to deal with them. Should I sell the shares and get rid of them, or what? Or should I take these profits?
The Shaykh : The problem is, if he sells them, to whom does he sell them?
The questioner : He sells them to other people.
The Shaykh : Who deal in usury?
The questioner : Yes, I do.
The Shaykh : So he is assisting in usury, do you understand?
The questioner : Yes, I do.
The Shaykh : I see that he should remain as he is, that he should remain as he is. But the profits that come—and I say: profits according to custom, otherwise they are not profit, they are a loss—he says to the bank: I do not want them.
The questioner : They do not leave it; they say: Take it.
The Shaykh : So if they say: We do not accept it, put it in the safe, it is not our concern, he takes it and gives it in charity.
The questioner : They send it by mail.
The Shaykh : Listen, if it is good, even if they send it by mail, he returns it by mail. But if it happens that they say: No, we do not accept it at all, put it in the safe, then he takes it and gives it in charity.
The questioner : He gives it in charity with the intention of getting rid of it?The Shaykh : Yes, with the intention of getting rid of it. Yes, with the intention of getting rid of it, not with the intention of drawing near to Allah.
The questioner : Not with the intention of drawing near to Allah.
The Shaykh : Yes, exactly.