Is Islam a static religion?

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Greed and 'needs' have no boundaries!

You are giving an example of day to day scenario in the settings which are created over decades. Buying insurance is one good way to start for medical expenses. Thats not paying interest or getting one. Ever heard of 'insurance' in your 'modern' world?
Besides a good welfare society can take care of needy.

There are people who ARE living in this world and have never paid and refused to get interest and are happy even in any islamic or non-islamic country.

Its an individual decision at the end of the day no matter how you look at.

Besides, you mentioned about islamic institutions and their interest free loans. Many are real.

There are and have been a great number of people who would give interest free loan to someone reaaly in trouble.

Please take time to search and seek.

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Thanks a lot SlaveofAllaah for such a wonderful peice.. you are really an authority on Islam.. Malhot kakey, Islam is a complete religion and focusses on all aspects of life. I dont think any other religion is that complete- plus they have lot of defects. Islam is a way of life, and it is life. :k:

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read this man,

http://www.salaattime.com/anwar.html

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^^ Can you summarize the relevant part of his lecture(s)?

@Mara: LOL no, we are not in the dark ages. We are v.well off, but we need to decide which path we take now.

@SlaveofAllaah: I beleive what is true in Islam is true outside of it as well. Hence, we SHOULD look at all perspective. It will either give you clearer / better understanding at worse - I am sure you have read in Quran yourself where Quran says to explore and understand the world and we will come back to Allah, praising him more :)

I personally think - this is more of an issue of coming to terms with things. For example, we have (somewhat) came to term with the "pictures". We know they are forbidden in islam, yet we pray with them in our pockets (money), we need ID such as passports and driving license for basic things ....
We don't question those pictures because they have come to become "essential" of normal living!

Apart from explicit stuff - picture media is somewhat essential to a "normal" living. Yes, we can certainly live without it, but you are cutting your social circles, you are isolating yourself from society ... just like jewish who lives away from society with horse and buggy and refuse to ride cars ...
I think its naive to think - Islam came to only put you in heaven (which btw, i fail to understand the typical understanding of heaven - buts leave that for another time)

P.S: I have failed to find TRUE INTREST FREE BANKING, you can mask it in various ways (and end up paying more) but this ignorance is not exactly bliss.

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^^ Can you summarize the relevant part of his lecture(s)?

@Mara: LOL no, we are not in the dark ages. We are v.well off, but we need to decide which path we take now.

@SlaveofAllaah: I beleive what is true in Islam is true outside of it as well. Hence, we SHOULD look at all perspective. It will either give you clearer / better understanding at worse - I am sure you have read in Quran yourself where Quran says to explore and understand the world and we will come back to Allah, praising him more :)

I personally think - this is more of an issue of coming to terms with things. For example, we have (somewhat) came to term with the "pictures". We know they are forbidden in islam, yet we pray with them in our pockets (money), we need ID such as passports and driving license for basic things ....
We don't question those pictures because they have come to become "essential" of normal living!

Apart from explicit stuff - picture media is somewhat essential to a "normal" living. Yes, we can certainly live without it, but you are cutting your social circles, you are isolating yourself from society ... just like jewish who lives away from society with horse and buggy and refuse to ride cars ...
I think its naive to think - Islam came to only put you in heaven (which btw, i fail to understand the typical understanding of heaven - buts leave that for another time)

P.S: I have failed to find TRUE INTREST FREE BANKING, you can mask it in various ways (and end up paying more) but this ignorance is not exactly bliss.

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As muslims love to live in denial, but the ground realities suggest that it is pretty much the case.

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Salamvalekum,

I hope you have read my post in context, i exactly i am with you completely, there is no doubt regarding that we have to change our perspectives, but that doesnt mean we change it to please our own needs though we know we can do without it. (Eg. buying a lavish house, with interest based loan though we the present house is satisfying our needs, but if we want to head directly to the top of Maslows hierarchical needs then its a no no)

Its greed which is leading to whre exactly we stand, i personally feel they are two relationships shown by Allaah to us one is relationship with Allaah and second relationship with humans.

But the above relationships should be well balanced, because extreme of both the relationships will lead to a blunder. Relationship with Allaah where one will become a hermit and effect the economy of a place, second relatioshop with humans will lead to materialism. Both are negated in Islam, so we as Muslims have to decide and change our perspective wrt the modern world.

But if we want the please our needs and change Quran accordingly, then again ahlan wa sahlan Allaah knows the best, but to act according to the Quran is what Allaah likes the best.