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Assalamu alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuhu. Bismillahi alhamdulillahi wa salatu wa salamu ala Rasulillah.

Welcome to another episode of a regular Tuesday series in which we select some of your questions and answer them.

And the email address, as I have said, is askyq at epikmasjid.org.

Askyq at epikmasjid.org.

And as I have said multiple times, I select the questions that I think will be of the maximum benefit.

So please understand, I do not answer individual questions at this email.

Today, inshaAllah wa ta'ala, we are going to tackle one of the most commonly asked questions that my email has been bombarded with.

And it is of relevance to so many, especially students.

And that is the issue of student loans.

That is the issue of the permissibility or impermissibility of students, especially here in America.

And generally speaking in the Western world, because again, these types of fatwas, these types of discussions I have,

generally speaking it is meant for specifically an American audience, or if the topic allows for it for a Western audience, generally speaking.

And the question that I'm going to choose today is basically a generic one called from many dozens of emails, literally from across the country,

dare I say across the Western world, and the gist of it is the same.

And that is that the student is not able to pay his or her fees, or they might have been accepted to a vocational school or medical school.

And obviously, the fees that are required for those are typically not affordable for the average person.

And there are alternatives, there are ways to acquire that money, some of which might appear to be dubious, or might actually be dubious.

So the question arises, is it permissible or impermissible for a student to take loans in order to execute in order to complete his degree or her degree?

That will be our question for today.

Now, obviously, the issue here we're talking about are those loans which have Riba or appear to have Riba.

We're not talking about taking a loan from family and friends.

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