Question: A bank and a merchant agreed\u2014seeking to avoid usury\u2014that the merchant sell to the bank\u2019s customers certain goods at their customary price, with no increase and no decrease; the bank is to settle the price of those goods, and the debt owed by the customers is to the bank. The merchant is to remit to the bank five percent of the value of those sales.
This is with the knowledge that the bank needs employees for this work\u2014for entries, bookkeeping, transfers, and processing. What is the Sharia ruling on this arrangement?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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