|
Taking out a loan to buy a house |
|
|
|
|
Written by Shaykh Hafeezud Din
|
|
Friday, 01 February 2008 |
|
What is the ruling regarding a believer who is struggling financially, but needs to buy a
home for family reasons only because his parents house is becoming overcrowded
due to himself, his brothers and sisters and their spouses living there? Is it permissible
for him to take a loan out from the bank?
Al-jawaab
billaahi at-taufeeq (the answer with Allah Taa’la's guidance)
Under
no circumstance must a person take loan from a bank and pay interest on it. In
doing so, he will only struggle further! He should try the council or Housing
Agency. You may find some Ulama who will allow Riba because we live in Dar ul
Harb, but, this, too, has NOT been accepted by the majority. For further details,
I would suggest you read ‘Kashf-al-Dujah’
which is published in the 3rd volume of Imdad-ul-Fatawa by Hadhrat Maulana
Zaffar Ahmad Uthmani.
(VERILY, ALLAH
TAA’LA IS ALL-KNOWING!)
<*><*>*>
|