The Creed of Compassion-Islamic Teachings & Answering Doctrinal Misconceptions

Issue No.1768- If the person who is giving less quantity of a commodity, adds some other thing to it, for example, if he sells 10 kgs of wheat plus one metre fabrics for 15 kgs of wheat, there is no harm in it. Similarly, there is no problem if both the parties supplement the commodity with something else. However, usury tricks, in which there is no serious intention (and which commonly involves giving a loan and exchanging its interest which is a pretty big amount for a kilo of candy), are baseless and void and the extra amount is considered as usury.

Issue No.1769- Commodities which are not sold by weight and volume, but by numbers and by measuring in metres, like eggs, fabric, and most utensils, or by visualization like most animals, there is no harm if less numbers are sold for more.

Issue No.1770- The commodities which are sold by weight and volume in some cities, and in some other cities by counting, (like eggs which are sold, nowadays, in some areas by weight and in some others by counting) if they are sold in the city where they are sold by weight and volume and receives more for that, it is usury and haram, but there is no harm in the other city.

Issue No.1771- There is no objection in purchasing and selling, in any form, things which are not of the same sort of commodity, such as selling 10 kgs of rice for 15 kgs of wheat.

Issue No.1772- If the commodity which a person is selling and the one which he is taking for it, are originally made of one thing, the extra amount would be usury as an obligatory precaution such as when one sells ten kilos of cream for twenty kilos of cheese, milk or butter.

Issue No.1773- From the point of usury, barley and wheat are commodities of one and the same sort. Hence, one cannot exchange 10 kgs of wheat for 12 kgs of barley, and vice versa. Even if one buys 10 kgs of barley on the condition that he would give in exchange 10 kgs of wheat at the time of its harvest, it is also haram, because he has taken barley on the spot and will give wheat some time later, and this amounts to taking something in excess.

Issue No.1774- Usury is not haram in a few cases:1) A Muslim taking interest from a non-Muslim who is not under the safeguarding of Islam.2) Father and son taking interest from each other.3) Wife and husband taking interest from each other.

Issue No.1777- If a person buys something from a child who is not mature, or sells something to him, the transaction is void, and he should give the commodity or the money that he has taken from the child to its owner, not to the child himself. In case if he does not know the owner, and also has no means to identify him, he should give it, with the permission of the Mujtahid or his representative, to an indigent person. If it belongs to the child himself, he should give it to his legal guardian. Of course, he can take back the money or the commodity that he has given to the minor, but if it has perished, he cannot claim its substitute.

Issue No.1778- If the buyer or the seller is forced to conduct a transaction, and consents later, the transaction is valid. However, as a recommended precaution, the formula of the transaction should be re-pronounced.

Issue No.1779- If a person sells the property of another person without his consent, and later the owner of the property consents and assures permission, the transaction will be valid.

Issue No.1780- The father or paternal grandfather of a child have, as an obligatory precaution, the right to sell, buy and make use of the property of the child, provided that it is in the child's best interest. The same rule applies to the executor and the Mujtahid or his representative.

Issue No.1781- If a person usurps some property and sells it and later the owner of the property permits it for himself, the transaction is valid.