Ask Qul - Business / Investment - government intervention

'The most despicable of professions [or profits] is the earning from usury.'

Imam Muhammad ibn Ali al-Baqir [as]

al-Kafi, v. 5, p. 147, no. 12

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Ask Qul - QA

Question : #382

Subject:	government intervention
Question:	Some governments are committed to providing housing for the needy under specific circumstances. Is it permissible for a Muslim to buy a house in which he resides for a short time (so that he will not be liable for khums [on that house]), and then he gives it out on rent so he can then go and live in a house subsidized by the government?
Answer:	Khums is not waived from a house just by living in it for a short while without actually being in need of it, as has been presumed in the question.

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