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If you assist people in paying off their interest based loans or reaching a settlement or rescheduling such loans or to enforce them pay off the interest and the likes, all such work is assisting on riba.

QUESTION: I’m a finance lawyer in a law firm. Our clients are banks and borrowers. We prepare loan documents (interest bearing) and security/collateral docs. We are paid a fee from the borrower for this work. Is this job permissible, makruh or haram? I’m not employed by any bank and don’t consume the interest myself.

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QUESTION: I teach kids online. They pay monthly in advance. sometimes some of kids go on holiday 4 a month & I still charge. Some parents don’t mind paying when absent & some don’t want to pay, so is it ok if I charge some & don’t charge the ones who don’t want to pay?