This document discusses the problems with the global capitalist economic system and interest-based banking. It argues that Islam provides a solution through its prohibition of interest and emphasis on equity-based financing models instead. The document outlines some of the social and economic issues caused by interest, and notes that interest-free banking models have been successfully implemented by some institutions. It encourages asking any remaining questions about Islam's economic solutions.
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Islam's solution to the global financial crisis
1. Islams Solution to
the Global
Financial Crisis
Ashraf Mohamedy
Managing Director
Idafa Investments Pvt. Ltd.
16. CAPITALISM IS BASED ON
Private Ownership of the means of production,
distribution & exchange
Profit motive being the prime stimutus for all
efforts
Production and what to produce being decided
on Price mechanism
Unrestricted economic freedom
Free Market
Interest
17. The richest 225 people own more
wealth than the poorest 2.5 Billion ..
The richest 3 people have wealth equal
to GDP of 47 poorest countries of the
world . . . .
If the richest 225 people gave a wealth
tax of 4% . . . . .
(Findings of United Nations Development Prog,
Human Development Report 1998 on the theme of
Poverty Alleviation)
18. SOCIALISM IS BASED ON
State / Govt. ownership of means of
production
State / Govt. interference on all enterprise
No ownership of property by the Citizen
(everything belongs to the state)
Centrally planned economy
Totalitarian state under dictatorship
No freedom of Expression
19. WHAT IS THE SOLUTION?
Man made systems are bound to fail
Communism had brought misery and was
discarded
Capitalism continues to oppress people
and is being opposed world wide
In the absence of a new MAN MADE
system, there is confusion globally
20. WHAT IS THE SOLUTION?
The Solution lies in following the way of
life offered to us by GOD himself!
HOW?
21. Features of the
Islamic Economic System
1. Allah is the Sustainer (29:62)
2. Allah is the Absolute owner; man trustee (6:165)
3. Everything created for Service & Use of mankind (2:29)
4. Ibadat & Muamlaat
5. Concept of Halal & Haram (2:168, 2:188, 5:3, 5:90)
6. System of Zakat & Sadaqah (2:43, 2:219, 2:274)
7. Prohibition of Interest
8. All activities based on Justice & Equity
22. Meaning of Riba
Definition of Interest
- Money paid for the use of money
Definition of Usury
- Exhorbitant amount of Interest
Meaning of Riba (Arabic)
- Increase, Addition or Growth
23. BIBLE ON INTEREST
Exodus 22:25
If you lend money to any of My people who
are poor among you, you shall not be like a
moneylender to him; you shall not charge
him interest.
Leviticus 25:35-37
If one of your brethren becomes poor, and
falls into poverty among you, then you
shall help him . Take no interest or
usury from him; but fear your God, that
your brother may live with you. You shall
not lend him your money for usury, nor
lend him your food at a profit
24. Manu Smruti Prohibits Interest
Chapter 11: Shloka 60 63 Slaying cows, sacrificing for those
who are unworthy to
sacrifice, adultery, selling
oneself, casting off one's
teacher, mother, father, or son, giving
up the (daily) study of the Veda, and
neglecting the (sacred domestic) fire .
. . . .. . Defiling a
damsel, INTEREST, breaking a
vow, selling a tank, a garden, one's
wife, or child
Living as a Vratya, casting off a
relative, teaching (the Veda) for
wages, learning (the Veda) from a
paid teacher, and selling goods which
one ought not to sell
25. AL- QURAN
Those who consume interest cannot
stand [on Judgement Day] except as
one stands who is being beaten by
Satan into insanity. That is because
they say, "Trade is [just] like interest."
But Allah has permitted trade and
has forbidden interest. So whoever
has received an admonition from his
Lord and desists may have what is
past, and his affair rests with Allah .
But whoever returns to [dealing in
interest or usury] - those are the
companions of the Fire; they will
abide eternally therein.
Surah baqarah 2:275
26. AL- QURAN
Allah destroys interest and
gives increase for charities.
And Allah does not like every
sinning disbeliever.
Surah Baqarah 2:276
O you who have believed, do
not consume usury, doubled
and multiplied, but fear Allah
that you may be successful.
Surah Aly-Imran 3:130
27. AL- QURAN
And [for] their taking of
usury while they had
been forbidden from it,
and their consuming of
the people's wealth
unjustly. And we have
prepared for the
disbelievers among
them a painful
punishment.
Surah Nisa 4:161
28. Hadith on Interest
Sahih Al-Bukhari Hadith 7.829
Narrated by Abu Juhaifa The Prophet forbade the use
of the price of blood and the price of a dog, the one
who takes (eats) usury the one who gives usury, the
woman who practises tattooing and the woman who
gets herself tattooed.
29. Hadith on Interest
Narrated byAbuHurayrah Allah's
Al-Tirmidhi Hadith 2826
Messenger (peace be upon him) said, "Usury has
seventy parts, the least important being that a man
should marry his mother." Ibn Majah and Bayhaqi,
transmitted it in Shu'ab al-Iman..
30. Hadith on Interest
Sunan of Abu-Dawood Hadith 3327 Narrated
byAbdullah ibn Mas'ud The Apostle of Allah (peace
be upon him) cursed the one who accepted
usury, the one who paid it, the witness to it, and the
one who recorded it.
31. Hadith on Interest
Sahih Al-Bukhari Hadith 7.259
Narrated byAbu Juhaifa The Prophet cursed the
lady who practices tattooing and the one who gets
herself tattooed, and one who eats (takes) Riba'
(usury) and the one who gives it. And he
prohibited taking the price of a dog, and the
money earned by prostitution, and cursed the
makers of pictures
32. Types of Riba
Riba Al Nasiah
- Interest on loans
- Also known as Riba Al- Quran
Riba Al Fadl
- Exchange of good quality, with poor quality
of the same thing
- Other forms of malpractices
33. Arguments Galore
Is interest same as riba?
Banks are institutions of development
Interest is the cost of development
Banks should be commended for the public
service they do
The interest of today is different from the days of
Jahilliya
WHAT IS THE REAL STORY?
34. War from Allah
O ye who believe! Fear Allah, and give up what
remains of your demand for usury, if ye are
indeed believers. If ye do it not, Take notice
of war from Allah and His Messenger. (Quran
2:278-279)
38. OLUSEGUN OBASANJO, Former
President of Nigeria
Nigeria borrowed $5 billion
from Western creditors in
1978. Since then, we have
paid back $16 billion. It may
also surprise you to know that
we still owe $31 billion! This is
largely due to compound
interest and interest rate
fluctuation.
39. Benjamin Disraeli
Governments do not govern, but merely control the
machinery of government, being themselves
controlled by the hidden hand.
The governments of the present day have to deal
not merely with other governments, with
emperors, kings and ministers, but also with the
secret societies which have everywhere their
unscrupulous agents, and can at the last moment
upset all the governments plans.
40. Thomas Jefferson,
3rd President of the USA
If the American people ever allow the banks to
control the issuance of their currency, first by
inflation then by deflation, the banks and
corporations that will grow up around them will
deprive the people of all property until their
children will wake up homeless on the
continent their fathers occupied. The issuing
power of money should be taken from the
banks and restored to Congress and the
people to whom it belongs. I sincerely believe
that banking institutions are more dangerous
than standing armies.
41. Lord Josiah Stamp, Former
Director, Bank of England
The modern Banking system manufactures
money out of nothing. The process is
perhaps the most outstanding piece of
sleight of hand that was ever inventedIf
you want to be slaves to the bankers, and
pay the costs of your own slavery, then let
the Banks create money
42. Jesse Jackson, US Civil Rights
Leader
They no longer use
bullets and ropes, they
use the World Bank and
IMF