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Interest (Riba) and the Devalued Ideas of the Modernists

Unfortunately today we see some modernists touting the following disorganised thought about usury: - Interest on Paper money is differed on. - Therefore it is not legislative ruling that is clear cut. - Hence in Economics we do not have a clearly defined system in Islam. Interest in Islam and its relationship to Paper Money Riba linguistically is derived from an Arabic verbal root which means literally to exceed. It is clearly prohibited in the Quran and Sunnah. For example in the Quran we have this verse “...This is because they say that trading is usury, but trade has been sanctioned and usury forbidden by Allah!” (2:276-277) In the Sunnah we also have many traditions, and I will go into more detail inshallah but one of the most famous one is the narration By Ubada ibn al Samit. “I heard the Messenger of Allah prohibiting the sale of gold for gold, silver for silver, wheat for wheat, barley for barley, dates for dates, salt for salt, except through equal measure and im

Be Inspired by this Jerusalem Prophecy

“One of the sacred places on earth is Syria; the most sacred part of Syria is Palestine; the most sacred part of Palestine is Jerusalem; the most sacred part of Jerusalem is the noble sanctuary; the most sacred part of the noble sanctuary is Masjid al-Aqsa.” [1] The advent of Islām and the Messenger of Allāh (sall Allāhu ʿalayhi wa sallam) was one that ushered light into a world filled with darkness, and hope to a people filled with dejection. He (sall Allāhu ʿalayhi wa sallam) was indeed the bearer of glad tidings. The Messenger of Allāh (sall Allāhu ʿalayhi wa sallam) informed us of events which will befall this Ummah (i.e. the Muslim community). Some of these narrations speak of the evil that will occur, that which would distance us from Allāh – the Most High – and make us weak in front of the nations. We are, today, actual witnesses to many of these events. In such periods it is sometimes easy to forget and overlook the good that is also due to transpire of a future, power a

Muslim Apologists and Intellectual Depth

Many young Muslims, with well-placed and sincere intentions to defend Islam against feminism, or the ‘Left’, can actually end up doing more harm than good. This is even more present among many Muslim lecturers and the emerging body of Muslim apologists who have become very much akin — and unfortunately so — to conservative pundits. How? Let us take feminism as an example. We can go about criticizing feminism two ways. The first, overlooks just how saturated, nuanced and multifaceted the debates on feminism actually are and thus — these critiques — end up making tabloid like generalizations, false equivocations, and an array of other fallacies. In turn, young Muslims who have even a cursory experience in, let’s say, academia, are immediately turned off from end up associating our superficial critiques with ‘normative Islam’. We fail to acknowledge that many of these ideas, like feminism, are complicated thought-structures that cannot be reduced or equivocated with punch-line assumpti