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IslamicTorrents was a BitTorrent tracker that focused mainly on Islamic and Islam-related materials. [1] Their tracker handled requests and tracks videos, audio files, Islamic lectures, Quran files, Islamic software, books, and particularly documentaries relating to Islam. Previously, the site catered to approximately 40,000 users worldwide and ...
In Musharaka business transactions, Islamic banks may lend their money to companies by issuing "floating rate interest" loans, where the floating rate is pegged to the company's individual rate of return, so that the bank's profit on the loan is equal to a certain percentage of the company's profits. [77]
In Islamic jurisprudence , Bai-muajjal, also called bai'-bithaman ajil, [284] or BBA, is a credit sale or deferred payment sale, i.e. the sale of goods on a deferred payment basis. In Islamic finance, the bai' muajjal product also involves the price markup of a murabahah contract, and a murabahah product involves a bai-muajjal deferred payment.
The Verse of Loan (Arabic: آية ٱلدين, ’āyatu d-dayn) is verse 282 in chapter Al-Baqara . [1] This verse is the longest verse in the longest chapter in the Quran . The concept of borrowing was explained in this verse.
Riba (Arabic: ربا ,الربا، الربٰوة, ribā or al-ribā, IPA:) is an Arabic word used in Islamic law and roughly translated as "usury": unjust, exploitative gains made in trade or business.
A supporter of Islamic economics describes a "major difficulty" faced by Islamic reformers of Islamic economics and pointed out by other authors, namely that because a financial system is an "integrated and coherent structure", to create an Islamic system "based on trust, community and no interest" requires "changes and interventions on several ...
A number of different words for sin are used in the Islamic tradition. According to A. J. Wensinck's entry on the topic in the Encyclopedia of Islam, Islamic terms for sin include dhanb and khaṭīʾa, which are synonymous and refer to intentional sins; khiṭʾ, which means simply a sin; and ithm, which is used for grave sins. [3]
According to critic of Islamic finance, Mahmoud A. El-Gamal, one way the Islamic finance industry gets around prohibitions on the use of options is to use conventional banks/financers as a "buffer" between the haram income and its sharia obedient customers — employing conventional banks as partners or advisers and paying them with the haram ...