Mansoor Danish – Why is Interest (Riba) Prohibited in Islamic Bank

			Bismillah R Rahman r Rahim. Hello everybody. This is monsoon daanish. And in today's session we'll
be discussing about the principle which governs Islamic finance industry. And the first principle
that we will discuss in today's episode is the prohibition of interest or rubber based transactions.
Now, interest is one of the hub of the conventional financial industry, you walk into any
conventional financial industry, any bank, any financial institution, you want to take some loan,
for business for home for studies for buying an automobile for buying a house, or you want a
personal loan, or you want a loan for the purpose of getting someone treated who's unwell, they
		

			offer you interest based loans, any kind of loan that they offer you, they have an interest model
embedded in it. If you want to put some money with the bank as deposits, they'll give you some
interest in return, if you put some money into a savings account, they again offer you some interest
for that. So, interest is clearly one of the hub of the conventional financial industry. And so, we
understand what does the word interest mean loosely or in a very simple usage, interest would mean
any excess premium, which is charged by the lender of the money the one who lends the money, he
charges an excess premium from the borrower
		

			for a certain duration of time, when the money has been kept with the borrower. So, for example, I
lend you some money for a period of a year and against that money, I charge you a
		

			percent 2% 5% 10% 20% could be any number could be any percentage, which I charge as a premium over
and above the principal that becomes interest.
		

			Now, this is in a very simple layman term
		

			coming to the concept of rubber, well rubber would simply mean to grow to multiply to increase to
swell, there could be different aspects of rubber, okay, and the word rubber the root word can be
used in different contexts. But when we talk of financial industry, when we speak of rubber, in that
context, we are referring to what is called the premium being charged over and above the amount of
money lent out
		

			that is the interest. So, when we talk of rubber, there can be different categories of rubber, which
we will see shortly from now. But the kind of interest which is dealt by conventional financial
industry clearly falls under the definition of Riba.
		

			And as I mentioned to you in the beginning that why interest is the hub of conventional financial
industry. Social Justice is the hub of Islamic financial industry. And I think this is an important
word that we must keep in mind, because whenever you wish to understand the permitted transactions
and the prohibited transactions from an Islamic financial point of view, invariably, they would fall
under the category of whether it promotes social justice, or it does not promote social justice, a
transaction which is detrimental to social justice would be termed prohibited transaction which
promotes social justice benefit for the community as a whole, that shall be permissible.
		

			That's an important term that we keep in mind. Now, why has Riba been prohibited as I mentioned to
you, one of the things that rebar does is it promotes injustice in the society, very simply, who are
the people who come to the bank and place the money with the bank, they are the ones who have money
with them. I mean, if I have money, I will go to a bank and I place my money in the bank. Against
this, the bank is going to offer me some interest.
		

			Who are the people who will typically come to the bank to seek law seek out loads, they are the ones
who are in need of money who don't have sufficient money, when they come to the bank. The bank who
is acting now as an agent, would lend out my money to the one who needs it, but would charge him a
higher percentage of interest.
		

			So he gives me the one who's deposited the money 5% while he charges, the one who's taken a loan 10%
he picks up that 10% pays me back my 5% and in the bargain makes a 5% profit from interest, profit
from interest. This is prohibited.
		

			This is creating injustice in the society. Here is a man who's got money. He is just sitting with
his money pretty secured. He knows he's going to get 5%
		

			the bank who is acting as an agent knows they have no risk involved. I mean, the money is not
belonging to the bank in the first place.
		

			So the bank is just simply picking up your money, giving it out to someone who needs it, collecting
10%, paying you or 5% and making 5% in this bargain, without putting in any major effort in the
economic activity. Whereas the man who's taking the loan, he has to run the economic activity, he
runs the risk of whether the economic activity will be successful or failure, irrespective of the
result of the economic activity for which he had taken the loan, he still has to repay back the
principal along with the interest. This is injustice. This is a society where there will be a
widening gulf between the rich and the poor, because the rich are getting richer, the poor are
		

			getting poorer, the poor, keep looking at the rich for loans, and the rich keep charging them heavy
interest. This is absolutely injustice.
		

			Now we might try and argue and pick up individual transactions to justify Riba. But remember what we
said, we are looking at social justice for one and all. If we make something permissible for one
individual as an exception, then they can be so many others who could justify that exception for
themselves. Let a small loss take place in order to avert a bigger calamity that is so important in
the Islamic financial sector.
		

			There are basically two categories of interest based transactions or two types of robot one is
called Riba further and one is Rabbana sia, we will talk about them in the future sessions. But to
tell you briefly, Reba anastasiia is the kind of rubber that you have in your money lending
transaction, you go to person from lend, take borrowing money, he gives you an upfront agreement
whereby you need to pay him back the principal along with a premium of 5% or 10%. That's Riba and
then you have rebar further, which happens when you exchange two homogeneous commodities and the
rebar could be the excess which arises in the exchange of these two commodities, either because of
		

			the quality or because of the quantity. We will talk a little bit more on this in the future
session. But that is all that we have for this session. We have tried to understand the basic
principle, which governs the Islamic financial industry number one is Riba we have other principles
as well, but we will take them up in the future session. If you have any questions that you would
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			much for watching.