Interest bearing loans & Transactions

Purchasing a car on interest

Q: Person A has said that for a self employed person who has to declare his profits at the end of 1 year in the UK, it is jaaiz for him to purchase a car on interest because if he does that, he’ll be paying less tax to the government as he believes that tax is haraam.

He says this isn’t permissible for a person who isn’t self employed as such a person pays tax according to his fixed salary irrespective of where he spends his wage on. (He says that this is how the system works in UK for tax.)

What is to be said of this?

Paying back an interest loan or delaying it until it is written off

Q: My question is about the UK student loans. I took out the loan to go to university not knowing back then that it was haraam. The UK student finance does't require you to pay anything back until you earn above a certain amount. However it does start taking interest from day one of the loan being given. I have now started a job and will have to pay back the loan which is taken out of my salary every month. 

My question is whether it is better for me to try and save up and get rid of the loan as soon as possible or is it ok if I continue paying as it is as the loan gets wiped off after 30 years. Either way I am paying interest.

The first option means I get rid off my debt as soon as possible, whilst the second one means that I may end up not even paying back as much as I borrowed as the loan gets woed out after 30 years. Whilst pursuing the second option I would contribute more to charirty inshaAllah. I need advise on which path is better.

Purchasing a house through taking a loan on interest

Q: We live in a country, where it is impossible to buy a house on a full amount, it is more expensive than Europe. My husband is religious and wonts take a mortgage. We have been married for 2 decades and wasted lots on rental property, and the headaches that come with it. Buying ones own house is a basic necessity and advised by scholars, elders, alike if possible.

1. Is buying a house in installments permissible in Islam? From a real estate developer?

2. Can one use an installment plan which is jaiz, from a bank such as Al Rajhi bank?

Taking out a student loan

Q: I am trying my best not to apply for a student loan but keeping up with my payments has become so difficult and it has come to a point where sometimes we don’t have food to eat because a big chunk is going out for university payments. I need to finish my degree for my kids future.

Can I take out a student loan involving interest but pay it back ASAP? Please advice as our situation is taking a toll on my health.

Bank finance

Q:

1. Will it be permissible if one purchases a car by applying to the bank by depositing a certain amount of money and handing over through a negotiation of repayment of an amount financed by the bank including interest in a fixed instalments?

2. Will it be treated same as the fatwa under "paying in instalments" in the English version of "Malfoozat of Faqeeh ul Ummat" compiled by Mufti Farooq Meeruti published by Madrasah Taleemuddeen.

Purchasing a property on an interest bearing loan

Q: My father bought an agricultural land almost 19 years ago, measuring 110 acres. My father is an advocate by profession and at the time of purchasing the land, my father had some money earned by himself and took some money in the shape of a loan from the bank and bought the land. I have heard that taking a loan is completely haraam, so is the land haraam for us? How do we make it halaal?