Interest money

Q: The road accident fund agrees to pay a person involved in a motor vehicle accident R100 000 for general damages. This agreement is taken to the high court so it can be made into a court order. The court order is made on 1 january 2017 that the road accident fund will pay the person R100 000. The court order further states: "In the event of the aforesaid amount not being paid timeously, the defendant shall be liable for interest on the amount at the rate of 10.25% per annum, calculated from the 15th calendar day after the date of this order to date of payment." The road accident fund pays the amount after 6 months of the court order and therefore interest is also received on top of the R100 000.

The question is: Is this extra amount received interest according to the shariah?

Q: Someone has committed fraud against me and stolen my money. I also have an account that accumalates interest which I dispose as charity. Based on what has happend, can I take the interest money an replace with the money I lost?

Q: I have both a current account as well as a savings account at the same bank. On both the accounts, the bank levies bank charges, but the savings account is interest-bearing.

In this situation, can the interest received on the savings account be used to pay the charges levied on both accounts by the bank?

If not, then to whom should the interest be given? Can it be given to non-Muslims and even to street beggars or beggars knocking on doors every week?

Q: I have got a mobile for myself and my wife on credit. Unfortunately I didnt do timely payments and also paid some interest on it. I know its a major sin but I just wanted to ask that the usage of the mobiles which I bought for myself and my wife is haram or halal?

Q: My husband's aunty always brings random stuff into our house. But my sister in law said that she spends on those things is riba or interest she gets from the bank.

My question is, are those things haram for us? Or should we consider it just as a gift.

Q: If a person gets interest money from a bank or a pension account then to whom should the interest money be given? Is it allowed to give the interest money to one's son or daughter or a relative?

Q: Is it permissible to use interest money to pay for duty costs imposed on imported goods?

Q: I often import goods from other countries. In some cases, the government charges me exorbitant amounts as import duties. Can I pay these import duties with interest money?

Q: As per new Saudi rules, they are charging many levy, taxes, even charges of exit/entry and iqama charges. My father have 7 dependents under him which and we are paying government more than 40,000 riyal from our halal earned money. In this case, is it possible to pay them by depositing our money in fixed deposits and give them interest amount and get rid of it? 

Q: Can you use interest money to offset bank charges?