A majority of the people who permit/allow taking Ribaa or inte | Ilm4all
A majority of the people who permit/allow taking Ribaa or interest-based loans are those living in the West and have adapted their way of life, and those who are influenced by them. These Fataawa of allowing Ribaa started from the West and is sweeping in every region of the world.
Those who are blindly following the Fataawa of these “scholars” today in doing a wrong, will wish on the Day of Judgment that they had never obeyed them in the first place:
يَوْمَ تُقَلَّبُ وُجُوهُهُمْ فِي النَّارِ يَقُولُونَ يَا لَيْتَنَا أَطَعْنَا اللَّهَ وَأَطَعْنَا الرَّسُولَا ﴿٦٦﴾ وَقَالُوا رَبَّنَا إِنَّا أَطَعْنَا سَادَتَنَا وَكُبَرَاءَنَا فَأَضَلُّونَا السَّبِيلَا ﴿٦٧﴾ رَبَّنَا آتِهِمْ ضِعْفَيْنِ مِنَ الْعَذَابِ وَالْعَنْهُمْ لَعْنًا كَبِيرًا ﴿٦٨﴾
{The Day their faces will be turned about in the Fire, they will say, "How we wish we had obeyed Allشah and obeyed the Messenger." And they will say, "Our Lord, indeed we obeyed our masters and our dignitaries, and they led us astray from the [right] way. Our Lord, give them double the punishment and curse them with a great curse."}
[Surah al-Ahzaab (33): 66-68]
When a person is dying and he has nothing to eat or drink, then he is allowed to eat from a pig or drink wine, which is enough to sustain his life, and not fill his belly. This is for the life and death situation.
Musab Ibn Umair, was born in a rich Makkan family. He was well taken care of, and he enjoyed all the comforts that there available. But when he accepted Islaam, his mother took away all that comfort and fortune from him. When he died, the Prophet ﷺ or his companions could not find a shroud big enough to cover him. If his head was covered with it, his feet would get uncovered, and when they tried to cover his feet with the shroud, his head got uncovered. So, the Prophet ﷺ instructed them to cover his head with the shroud and put grass on his feet to cover them. These are people who chose religion over their own comfort, while today, those who allow Ribaa are only choosing a life of comfort over religion.
