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<blockquote data-quote="Babagounj" data-source="post: 1602204" data-attributes="member: 12952"><p><span style="font-size: 22px"><strong>Muslim Decides Islam Forbids Him From Paying $32,000 In Student Loan Interest</strong></span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 22px"><strong>Steve Rhode, <a href="https://getoutofdebt.org/about-steve-rhode" target="_blank">the Get Out of Debt Guy</a>, has advised a Muslim man seeking financial advice not to try to use Islam as a crutch to get out of paying half of what is now a $64,000 student loan debt.</strong></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 22px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 22px"><strong>“Dear Steve,” the Seattle, Wash. man going by the name Amir wrote to Rhode <a href="https://getoutofdebt.org/88614/my-islamic-faith-prevents-me-from-paying-interest-on-my-student-loans" target="_blank">in a missive published this week,</a> “I had two citi-student loans and at some point in time within the last 5 years they went to Navient.”(formerly Sallie Mae)</strong></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 22px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 22px"><strong>Amir explained that he had unsuccessfully asked the loan servicing company to lower his payoff amount to $32,000, even though the actual amount he owes is $64,000 “because of deferment and interest.”</strong></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 22px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 22px"><strong>The dismayed student loan borrower also noted that he “was born into Islam” but only took a serious interest in the religion in 2012. One thing he has learned since then, he said, is that “dealings with interest” are “strictly forbidden” under Islam.</strong></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 22px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 22px"><strong>“I am offering to pay off the original amount I owe,” Amir graciously offered. As for the rest, he wants his creditors to acknowledge that his “awareness and conditions have changed” since he accepted the loan.</strong></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 22px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 22px"><strong>“Can I get the interest wiped out and close this account and case with just paying the original amount borrowed?” Amir asked.</strong></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 22px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 22px"><strong>Rhode then responded by having exactly none of Amir’s plea for a religion-based student loan discount.</strong></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 22px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 22px"><strong>“Asking any lender to adjust their terms and conditions after the fact for religious reasons is just not going to happen,” the Get Out of Debt Guy bluntly declared.</strong></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 22px"></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Babagounj, post: 1602204, member: 12952"] [SIZE=6][B]Muslim Decides Islam Forbids Him From Paying $32,000 In Student Loan Interest[/B][/SIZE] [SIZE=6][B]Steve Rhode, [URL='https://getoutofdebt.org/about-steve-rhode']the Get Out of Debt Guy[/URL], has advised a Muslim man seeking financial advice not to try to use Islam as a crutch to get out of paying half of what is now a $64,000 student loan debt.[/B] [B][/B] [B]“Dear Steve,” the Seattle, Wash. man going by the name Amir wrote to Rhode [URL='https://getoutofdebt.org/88614/my-islamic-faith-prevents-me-from-paying-interest-on-my-student-loans']in a missive published this week,[/URL] “I had two citi-student loans and at some point in time within the last 5 years they went to Navient.”(formerly Sallie Mae)[/B] [B][/B] [B]Amir explained that he had unsuccessfully asked the loan servicing company to lower his payoff amount to $32,000, even though the actual amount he owes is $64,000 “because of deferment and interest.”[/B] [B][/B] [B]The dismayed student loan borrower also noted that he “was born into Islam” but only took a serious interest in the religion in 2012. One thing he has learned since then, he said, is that “dealings with interest” are “strictly forbidden” under Islam.[/B] [B][/B] [B]“I am offering to pay off the original amount I owe,” Amir graciously offered. As for the rest, he wants his creditors to acknowledge that his “awareness and conditions have changed” since he accepted the loan.[/B] [B][/B] [B]“Can I get the interest wiped out and close this account and case with just paying the original amount borrowed?” Amir asked.[/B] [B][/B] [B]Rhode then responded by having exactly none of Amir’s plea for a religion-based student loan discount.[/B] [B][/B] [B]“Asking any lender to adjust their terms and conditions after the fact for religious reasons is just not going to happen,” the Get Out of Debt Guy bluntly declared.[/B] [B][/B][/SIZE] [/QUOTE]
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