Cutting Ties over Differing Fatwas on Riba

Question

This humble one was a student of the Dar al-Ifta in 1980. At that time it was known to all the respected [scholars] that the respected Hazrat Mufti Mahdi Hasan ﵀ and the deputy mufti allowed leeway regarding [business] dealings [with interest-based institutions] in India, and held permissible such forms of banking and the like from which Muslims would benefit; on this subject the respected Hazrat Mufti ﵀ wrote a detailed fatwa, recorded in the 1980 register. During that same period an istifta on riba (usury)

Answer

The true purpose is reform. If reform is expected through [maintaining] connection and gentle treatment, then relations should not be cut off. Sometimes it happens that cutting off relations gives rise to obstinacy in a person’s disposition, and the result of that is evil and corruption; sometimes cutting off relations is beneficial.

Source: Fatawa Mahmudiyya

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