Interest and Its Role in Economy and Life

An article explains why the Muslims abide by the prohibition of usury while the Jewish and Christian secularists are calling to to affirm it. A glimpse at some texts from the Quran and the Sunnah which severely warn against the taking of interest. Interest and Usury in the Bible (Judaism and Christianity) and according to early thinkers. An article explains how something so despised such as interest could be justified and even institutionalized as a standard. The various ways in which thinkers in the past have tried to conjure explanations for the existence of interest. The various ways in which interest has harmed society. The devastating ills of interest on an international level. An Islamic solution to the interest model, and how economy can still thrive without interest.

Author: Jamaal Zarabozo

Publisher: A website Islam Religion www.islamreligion.com

Source: http://www.islamhouse.com/p/190075

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The Book of (Nikah) Marriage

An informative guide to marriage and its various rulings.

Author: Muhammad Bin Ibrahim Al-Tuwajre

Reveiwers: Muhammad AbdulRaoof

Publisher: Cooperative Office for Propagation, Guidance, and Warning of Expatriates in the city of Naseem - A website Islamic Library www.islamicbook.ws

Source: http://www.islamhouse.com/p/328626

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Death is Enough as an Admonition

A short but influential admonition regarding death.

Publisher: Daar Al-Watan

Source: http://www.islamhouse.com/p/1323

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Dawah to Christians

This is an important book talks about the sects of Christianity i.e. Catholic, Orthodox, Protestant and Jehovah’s Witness, etc. In addition, it shows the differences and the unifying beliefs among them. It also focuses on the way of Jesus regarding pork, alcohol, polygamy, fasting, interest, greeting, veiling, prostration, ablutions and circumcision. Finally, it gives a chapter about the authorship of the Bible.

Source: http://www.islamhouse.com/p/318733

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Private Devotions for Morning and Evening from the Quran and Sunnah

The author said in his introduction, “There are hundreds of benefits associated with Dhikr, the act of rehearsing and celebrating the praises of Allah. The well-known medieval scholar Ibn Al-Qaiyim mentioned more than seventy of these in his book Kitabul-Adhkar. Among the benefits he mentioned were that Dhikr drives away Satan, pleases Allah, the Merciful, and replaces pain and sorrow of the heart with peace happiness and contentment.”

Author: Saeed Bin Ali Bin Wahf Al-Qahtani

Translators: Omar Johnstone

Source: http://www.islamhouse.com/p/373061

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