u/just_here_to_talk__

Assalamu alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuhu

This is truly a bit embarrassing to ask about on Reddit. Explaination: I don't have any adults in my life who are salafi who could explain this to me properly, and they also haven't yet gotten to explaining finances much to me since I'm still young. I have a relatively good understanding on finances when it comes to what a halal job/income would be, how to spend, how to save, how to give zakah and who has to give it. I grew up pretty financially aware, so that isn't really an issue.

What I have been thinking about for ages is bank accounts.

Most jobs nowadays pay through bank accounts, not directly money into your hand. If a bank offers riba-based loans (but you do not take them nor engage with them in any way) is it permissible to have an account in such a bank? All of the banks in my area do offer riba, so I've been a bit worried about this for quite a while now even if I still can't legally have a bank account at all.

Assalamu alaykum

I'm a teenager, starting high school soon. Our high schools are mixed, and I have to go. Is there sin upon me if I go, wearing proper hijab, without interacting with the male students (we don't really do group projects so there is basically no chance teachers will make me and I won't initiate any conversation myself) and adhering to rules of modesty in class, with students and teachers alike?

We don't have separated classes by gender in any schools as far as I'm aware. We have an Islamic school that isn't upon the Quran and sunnah, and I believe the classes are mixed there, too. Males sit on one side and females on the other, no screen or wall between them either. It isn't that much different to public high schools where students usually tend to separate like that on their own.