Is Bank/Insurance Salaries are permissible or impremissible ?

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@lethal_kamikaze

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On this Friday, while listening the sermon, the Imam masjid said: “Don’t work in banking and insurance field because the income source of both are from impermissible (Haram) way”.

• Sayyiduna Abd Allah ibn Masud (Allah be pleased with him) narrates that the Messenger of Allah cursed (la’ant) the one who accepted usury, the one who paid it, the witness to it, and the one who recorded it. (Sunan Abu Dawud: Book 22, Number 3327).
• In another Hadith, the Messenger of Allah (saw2) invoked curse on the receiver of interest, the payer of interest, the scribe and the two witnesses. And he said: They are the same (i.e. in sin). (Sahih Muslim)

The permissibility (halaal) or impermissibility (haram) of employment in a particular firm or company basically depends on two things:

The nature of the job must be lawful (halal), meaning if the work entails something that is prohibited in Shariah, such as posing for nude picture-taking, serving alcohol or recording and calculating interest transactions, etc, then this type of work will be unlawful.
The reason for its prohibition is that, the work itself has been prohibited in Shariah. And due to this, even if the salary was paid from a Halal source, the work will still remain unlawful.

The salary or income that one receives must also be from a Halal source. If the work itself is lawful (halal), but the salary is paid from unlawful and impure money, such as or interest money, it will still be unlawful to accept that job.

P.S. this is for awarness of our borther/sister

It is a delicate matter and complex.

Many points need to be considered before accepting or even refuting what is said by the Imam.
He may be right and he may not be depends how one looks at it.

Money is money. It does not by itself has a stamp placed automatically if it was earned by interest or not. Money earned by interest, bribery, stealing or cheating…they all look the same!

A person who is working in any job (as long as the job itself is acceptable or halal) then accepting money for that hard work should be considered acceptable.

The matter gets real difficult when one thinks with same token a person who is guard, cashier, cleaner, maintenance person, operator on a drug business place, brothel house…humm…should his/her salary be considered halal? He/she is doing his/her assigned job and has nothing to do with the business what goes in there.