The treatment of usury in the holy scriptures

✍ Scribed by Syed Hussain Ali Jafri; Lawrence S. Margolis

• Book ID: 104601113
• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1999
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 571 KB
• Volume: 41
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1096-4762
• DOI: 10.1002/tie.4270410405

✦ Synopsis

If thou lend money to any of My people, even to the poor with thee, thou shalt not be to him as a creditor; neither shall ye lay upon him interest" (Exodus 22:24).

"Love your enemy and do good; lend without expecting repayment. Then will your reward be great. You will rightly be called sons of the Most High; since He Himself is good to the ungrateful and the wicked" (Luke 6:35).

". . . Allah (God) has permitted trading and forbidden Usury"

(Quran:2:275).