Taking interest in non-Muslim lands? 

Answer:

Walaikum assalam wa rahmatullah,

1. The reality of non-Muslim lands, and Muslims living there, is fundamentally different from the reality the fuqaha discussed.

2. The top fuqaha of our times are agreed about the impermissibility of giving or taking interest in non-Muslim lands, for many reasons. The duty of the non-scholar is to follow the recognized scholars of their time; they do not have the choice of ‘digging up’ favorable rulings from the books, because such rulings may not reflect the time-and-space realities of their context.

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Wassalam,
Faraz Rabbani

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