Transactions & Dealings >> Interest & Insurance
Question ID: 49560Country: India
Answer ID: 49560
Bismillah hir-Rahman nir-Rahim !
(Fatwa: 87/89/D=01/1435) If the bank, instead of paying loan to you, purchases the car itself and then sells it to you with additional price and you pay the price in instalments, then it is lawful. It means that the bank itself will purchase the car and after taking it in its possession, it will sell it to you. This is a fair transaction. But if it pays the loan amount in cash or cheque (whether it is in your favour or that of showroom), and then you pay to it in instalments with additions, then it is a transaction of interest which is unlawful. In this case, if the car is in the name of bank, then also it will be interest; since the car was issued in bank’s name as security of the loan and in fact the bank did not buy it itself.
Allah (Subhana Wa Ta'ala) knows Best
Darul Ifta,
Darul Uloom Deoband, India