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The largest seminary in #India, Darul Uloom Deoband, has issued a fatwa asking Muslim women to not marry into a family whose members work in banks. Deoband argued that the income from banking jobs is considered haram (forbidden) earnings. The edict was pronounced after a person asked Darul Ifta if he should marry his daughter to a man whose father worked in a bank. The Islamic scholars have upheld the fatwa, contending that the religious body’s stand was in line with the Islamic law. Islamic researcher Maulana Nadimul Vajdi said that if a person, knowingly or unknowingly, has indulged in haram earning, the person concerned should quit the job and find another one in which the income was not considered forbidden under the Islamic law.