Working at a bank?

[Lucid_Chaotic]

My reply from another similar thread in the AllViews section:

@Lucid_Chaotic

I have no contention with people who believe that bank jobs are haraam, but it becomes sort of a joke when these same people are regularly engaged in credit card transactions which are predominantly based on the charging and paying of interest.

The hadith that is usually quoted by those who claim bank jobs are haraam is this:

“cursed 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).

The implications of this hadith and working in a bank are discussed more here, primarily granting that bank jobs that involve a person working on lending contracts and interest provisions are prohibited.

Again, everyone is free to believe whatever they wish - what bugs me is if someone is being hypocritical by accepting a certain maxim only in part - e.g. working in a bank is haraam but using credit cards is okay.