In a system of Riba, how do you protect yourself?

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@USResident

Can someone first define what Interest is before this discussion moves on? Interest in the light of Quran and hadith. And then in the light of trade and commodities and finally the difference in money centuries ago and today. Without an understanding on these fundamentals its pretty fruitless to discuss riba or interest in todays system. The system of today is not as cut and dry as it used to be centuries ago.

Any form ‘Time value of money’ is Riba.
Any financial transaction/contract where the quantity of the comodity used strictly as a medium of exchange/store of value , is supposed to change not as a result of a natural process of depletion or growth but at an artificially defined rate, the ‘flux’ in the commodity’s quantity is a form of Riba. - Anyhow this is one definition I learnt from a scholar ,

I believe you should do more research on this subject to clarify any doubts in your mind.