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Using Riba Based Income as Capital
Can a person who receives a riba based sum of money as part of a divorced settlement use the cash to buy houses to rent?
It would be permissible to keep the money because the sin of the riba returns to the person dealing in the riba, not the one receiving the money. The money may be used in any permissible way. For the divorce settlement, though the specificity of the issue takes us beyond the scope of a simple answer, one must always ensure that the divorce was Islamically settled since conventional financial settlements following a divorce are not permissible.

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