Chapter 23 Tijarah – Trade, from Shari’ah by Abd ar-Rahman I. Doi, edited, revised and expanded by Abdassamad Clarke.
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Makkah Imam Calls for Islamic Common Market
   Makkah Imam Calls for Islamic Common Market  15 March 2008 — Sheikh Saud Al-Shuraim, imam of the Grand Mosque in Makkah and a member of the teaching staff at Umm Al-Qura University, has called for the establishment of an Islamic common market.  Delivering his Juma sermon at the Grand Mosque …
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Malikis praying with their arms by their sides
A fabricated story has gained some credence among some Muslims who say that Imam Malik’s arms had been damaged, may Allah be merciful to him, in the punishment inflicted on him by the governor of Madinah, and that he was thus unable to fold his arms over his chest in prayer, and that the Malikis …
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War is a racket
Smedley Darlington Butler (July 30, 1881 June 21, 1940), nicknamed “The Fighting Quaker” and “Old Gimlet Eye,” was a Major General in the U.S. Marine Corps and, at the time of his death, the most decorated Marine in U.S. history. In his 1935 book, War Is a Racket, Butler presented an exposé and trenchant condemnation of the profit motive behind warfare. His views …
Did you not see how your Lord dealt with the people of the elephant?
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“Really a war of resources”
05.03.2008 Interview with Dr. Abulhay Y. Zalloum about the history of oil and its importance for the 20th century “Really a war of resources”Dr. Zalloum:Â Let us not forget that I lost my country, Palestine, because it was promised by a British Lord to another British Lord. I was always intrigued to find out about the …
A $3 trillion dollar war with $615 billion in interest
http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2008/04/stiglitz200804?printable=true¤tPage=all“8. Add interest. The U.S. has borrowed most of the funds used to wage the Iraq war. We will have to repay this debt with interest. If we include in our tally the interest payable on what we are borrowing over only the next 10 years, this adds another $615 billion to the price tag, and brings …
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A hypnotic trance
What explains mankind’s rush to extinction and to destruction of the biosphere if not hypnotic trance? Allah, exalted is He, says in Surat al-A’raf about the magicians of Pharaoh: “And when they threw, they cast a spell on the people’s eyes and caused them to feel great fear of them. They produced an extremely powerful …
The dollar versus gold? No contest
“As a medium of exchange, money needs to have convertibility and liquidity. Paper currencies have these qualities, so does gold. To add to the store of value, money needs to retain its value over long periods. “Gold has retained its value, though with fluctuations, over centuries. Even now its purchasing power in terms of physical …
Den gavmilde Qur’an
Koen – Al-Baqara I Allahs navn, Den AlnÃ¥dige, Den NÃ¥defulde 1       Alif Lam Mim.        Det er Bogen uden tvivl.        Den indeholder vejledning for de som vogter sig; 2              de som tror pÃ¥ det usete og iværksætter bønnen               og giver ud af det som Vi har forsørget dem med; 3              de som tror pÃ¥ det som er blevet sendt ned …