Suppose you need to borrow £50,000 to buy your first home.
The Capitalist way
You will have to pay back the loan and the interest charged on it
until it is paid off.
This can amount to over £250,000 over
25 years.
That is you have to pay £10,000 per year for 25 years.
Notice how much of your wealth the
bank devours in interest.
Two hundred thousand pounds!!!
for borrowing fifty thousand pounds.
The Islamic Way
Islamic bank will lend you £50,000 to buy your home.
Suppose you decide that you want to pay off the loan at £5,000 per year.
This will take 10 years to clear your principal sum.
The bank then obtains a market value of your house.
Let's say it's value has appreciated to £60,000.
Since the bank lent you 100% of the money they have a share in this profit.
This means you can comfortably pay-off your loan
in 12 years instead of 25 years or reduce the percentage share of the bank in your home.
Dis-Advantage of Capitalism
If you fall ill or lose your job ,
you still have to keep up the repayment at £10,000 per annum.
If you go into arrears you risk Reposession and the loss of your home.
Benefits of Islamic System
If you fall ill or lose your job the time of the loan is extended by the bank, but so does the appreciation
value of your home.
The bank does not lose profit because their function is to lend, nor are you forced out of your home for repossesion.
The total sum you pay is £250,000 that is four times more than the loan.
The total sum you pay is £60,000 that is much less than the loan.
This is CRIMINAL but the banks are
getting away with it because like you
everyone thinks that it is the only way to borrow money.
You have spent twelve years of your life owning a
home and now you can afford to help your children,
relatives and the needy to improve their lives.
This is the Islamic principle.
The wealthy capitalists have successfully constrained the world to operate their usury banking system, at all costs.
This is why they actively brand Islam with terrorism, evil and corruption when in fact they actively promote instability and lay to waste any organisation that tries to operate Islamic banking.
Interest is not profit.
Most banks cannot use the money collected in interest as it is not capital for in their constitution.
So the banks are getting richer but there is no one who can use that wealth. It piles in bank vaults and just big numbers in bank accounts.
It subjects the poor countries to remain poor forever and it does not make the so-called rich countries any better off.
Look around you,
how many people live on or below the poverty in your town, or village or city?
and ask your self whether you are a slave to the banking system
or a free man.
[al-Baqarah 2:275.4] Those who swallow usury cannot rise up save as he ariseth whom the devil hath prostrated by (his) touch. That is because they say: Trade is just like usury; whereas Allah permitteth trading and forbiddeth usury.
[al-Baqarah 2:276.4] Allah hath blighted usury and made almsgiving fruitful. Allah loveth not the impious and guilty.
[Al-Imran 3:130.7] O ye who believe! Devour not usury, doubling and quadrupling (the sum lent). Observe your duty to Allah, that ye may be successful.
Reproduced from R.Goerwitz's 'The Holy Quran Browser' using M.Pickthal's translation of the Holy Quran