Fatwa on Banking
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The Use of Interest Received on Bank Deposits
Umar Ibrahim Vadillo
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction........................................................................3
2. The Issue.............................................................................7
3. Understanding Riba...........................................................10
3.1 A world shaped by Riba....................................................103.2 What is Riba?.................................................................11
4. The Misunderstanding of Riba............................................20
4.1. Religious reformism and capitalism...................................204.2 The Islamic Reformers.....................................................234.3 The followers of Reda......................................................274.4 The misunderstanding of Riba an-nasiah today....................284.5 Equating Riba to interest in a loan.....................................334.6 Islamic Banking..............................................................344.6.1 Islamic Banks are banks.............................................344.6.2 Murabaha: what it is and what it is not.........................384.6.3 How the Islamic Bank’s version of the contract of Murabahacame into being.................................................................414.6.4 The danger of making principles out of contracts............464.7 The Stages of the “Islamisation” process............................484.8 On the methodology of modernism....................................49
5. Understanding Paper Money..............................................54
5.1 Paper money backed by gold and silver..............................545.2 Devaluation in paper money.............................................605.3 Paper money with no backing, but only State legal compulsion..........................................................................................61
6. The Islamic Mu’amalat.......................................................63
6.1 The Islamic business contracts..........................................656.1.1 Shirkat (Partnership)..................................................676.1.2 Qirad (business loan).................................................73
7. Conclusion: What to do?....................................................76
7.1 Practical Steps................................................................77