Employment that also involves accounting for interest

Question

Question: I am a government employee. My duties consist of paying pensions to pensioners, making entries on the salaries of government employees and checking travel expenses, issuing stamps, and keeping the accounts of the supply and sale of documentary and judicial (stamps). Along with this, sometimes the levying of interest is made on my note, and the interest amounts of various loans are deposited by payment slip; thus, from time to time, the accounts of the levying of interest and of interest amounts being…

Answer

Your basic income was permissible, but now in your permissible job you also have to do some work that is not allowed in the Shari‘a. If, compared with the permissible work, the other work is less, then do not leave your job.

Source: Fatawa Mahmudiyya

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