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The
ruling regarding the salary of bank employees
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Question:
Is the salary which the employees of banks in general receive,
and Arab banks specifically, halaal
or haraam,
since I have heard that it is haraam
because the banks deal with ribaa
in some of their transactions? I request you advise me since
I want to work in one of the banks.
Response:
It is not permissible to work in banks which deal with ribaa,
because in doing so is assisting them in sin and transgression,
as Allaah (Subhaanahu
wa Ta'aala) says:
{Help
you one another in al-Birr and at-Taqwa (virtue, righteousness
and piety); but do not help one another in sin and transgression},
[Soorah al-Maa.idah, Aayah 2].
And
it is authenticated from the Prophet (sal-Allaahu
`alayhe wa sallam) that he cursed those who ate/benefitted
(aakil) from ribaa
as well as the one responsible (for the transactions), the
one who writes (the transactions) and the witnesses (to the
transactions), and he said:
((...they
are the same/equal...)), transmitted by Imaam
Muslim.
Shaykh
Ibn Baaz
Silsilah
Kitaab ad-Da'wah (1), al-Fataawa - Volume 1, Page 142
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