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		<title>Is Interest Really Banned in Islam?</title>
		<description>Discuss Is Interest Really Banned in Islam?</description>
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			<title>ISRAR  HASAN says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[The Qur'an permitted trade and forbidden 'riba' in 2:275. Here the scripture undertakes to bring reform in those Arab practices of loaning and borrowing money or goods that were in vogue then in the Arab society. The ‘usury’ of the seventh century is not the same as the ‘interest’ of today. The one was exploitative, the other is socially productive. Today's interest in the whole financial system is entirely in consonance with the Qur'an. The writer is right in claiming that the Quran does not condemn trading and commercial interest.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>ISRAR  HASAN</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jul 2012 21:57:22 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>Kawaii Gardiner says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ But when ever I hear narrations regarding riba/interest it tends to be along the lines of loan sharks rather than genuine loans with a contract, clear obligations by the leader and the loan, the rights of the person borrowing the money, that the rate of interest to be clear and not subject to wild fluctuations depending on how greedy the leader may be at that moment of time. Like anything - the evil is in its use and abuse, not necessarily in the concept of interest in and of itself.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Kawaii Gardiner</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jul 2012 15:15:30 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>Omar says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[It is one thing to say that due to the advancement of the modern world and economy, certain religious prescriptions have become outdated, especially when the writing was revealed at a time where your livelihood was earned via trade. Personally, I completely understand and see the usefulness of interest. I have no qualms about it and the author makes a compelling case for it (when discussing inflation, for example). But to actually turn this into a semantic battle where the Quran somehow sanctions interest is intellectually dishonest, especially when he cites scholars who give THEIR interpretation of the word. "Riba" means "increase" which refers to the increasing of a sum that's owed by a debtor; which is why the word is usually translated as "interest." The purpose of this article appears to offer a justification of what Islam would consider a "sinful behavior/practi ce."]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Omar</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jul 2012 00:49:44 +0000</pubDate>
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