Re: Working in a bank
Dear lethal kamikaze, let say you have a jigsaw puzzle of your own and I have mine. They are both made of same pieces of cardboard but pieces of your jigsaw puzzle are cut differently in shape and size than mine so the fitting is not the same. The pieces of my jig saw puzzle only fit with each other but when you show me pieces of your jig saw puzzle I see that some of them do not fit together. Not only that but when you take some pieces from my jig saw puzzle and try to fit them with your pieces that makes things even worse.
Likewise when I interpret a verse it is according to the context I have in my head so you cannot fit it with the context you have in your head that you have taken from interpretations of others.
In the quranic context, trade does not mean business for profit rather it is trade for the benefit of mankind ie for fulfilling the needs of people. So word TIJAARAH should not be taken in sense of profiteering from business. It is because to begin with we are not to profit from each other at the expense of social relationships therefore deception and greed etc does not come into it.
In the quranic context BAEE=agreement or contract and that is bound by islamic constitution ie the quran. So trading of goods and services is bound by constitution and constitutional laws. So baee is has nothing to do with trading for profit either.
In the quranic context RIBAA does not mean interest on lent or borrowed money but profiteering at the expense of community life. It is because in islam people are bound by brotherhood so it is inconceivable that brothers in the name of God would profit from each other instead of giving their all for each other. It is matter of if I have something but I am not using it and you need to use it then you just take it and use it and when you are finished using it and someone else needs it then let him have it sort of life style.
Money is simply used for tokenism to facilitate trading or movement of goods, it in itself has no value, be it in coins of gold and silver or just notes on paper. ANFAAL is reserve or extra production by the community not war booty. The brotherhood is supposed to work hard together and maximise production and then collect and divide it into parts for various uses eg normal daily use part, emergency part, reinvestment part, part to take care of things when there comes about a change eg new people coming from outside to join muslim community etc or new born babies. research and exploration needs etc etc. GHANEEMAH= production by community not maale ghaneemat dile berahem. Likewise all words have certain function in an organised community.
People cannot understand these concepts till they realise how to organise and run a community or a country and what will be needed for the process to be successful.
It is because islam binds people into a strong brotherhood that has to be alive and should mean something that is why people who realise the goodness in that way of life happily give their life for it because they will not be worries about whom they leave behind because they know they will b ewell looked after by each other.
In today’s muslim societies a woman cannot even step outside her home yet we claim we are muslims. That is just lip service to islam. Real muslim society could only be that wherein there is no KHOWF nor HUZN because all ensure security and prosperity of each other. This is why that is true brotherhood and woman and men all feel secure and at peace with each other.
You can see why I need to explain things in detail rather than just throwing around one liners. The real concepts of islam are dead in minds of people, they only exist in books. We have plenty of hufaaz of the quran and hadith and fiqh but not ulemaa of these sources who really understand what is in their minds.
regards and all the best.
Money has been minted since early Islamic age for trading purpose. Profiteering is Halal. There is a system to give poor in the form of Zakat and other noble causes. In the history of mankind, Allah has given some people much more wealth than others.
In Islam, it is 2.5% zakat, in Hinduism 10% is to be spent on noble causes from ones earnings (just to give you an example). Many hospitals from the pre-partition era are named after Hindu’s. Like Sir Ganga Ram Hospital in Lahore, etc.
You are living in fantasy world.