Faḍīlat ad-Daktūr al-ʿAlāmah, Muḥammad Saʿīd Ramaḍān al-Būṭī (may Allah protect him), I have a friend who works in a usurious bank. Is his wealth considered lawful, i.e. if we were to visit him in his home and eat his food, would we be consuming usurious wealth? Please benefit us and may Allah the Exalted benefit you and grant you the highest station of nearness to Him.
If your friend’s income is a mixture of that which is lawful and that which is unlawful, there is no objection in the Revealed Law to your receiving his hospitality and eating his food. If, on the other hand, his entire income is from unlawful wealth, it is not permissible for you to consume any of his wealth, whether by transferring ownership of something[1] or by way of eating.[2]
[2] (tn): i.e. what some scholars milk al-intifāʿ, or the ownership of benefiting from something while not being authorised to rent it, sell it, or otherwise exchange it. See Ash-Sharikāt wa Aḥkamuhā fī al-Fiqh al-Islāmī: Dirāsah Muqāranah fī ash-Sharikāt al-Islmāmiyyah by Imam Muḥammad at-Tāwīl (Beirut: Dār Ibn Ḥazm, 1430/2009,) 34-45.
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