concept

Ribā

Beliefs & concepts

Forbidden increase on loans or exchanges in Islamic legal speech. Not usury as a bare English synonym alone, and not gharar as excessive uncertainty.

Also known as Riba

Islam

  • Ribā appears in Islam.

    The Qur’an sternly condemns ribā — usurious increase — and contrasts it with charity. Islamic anti-usury speech in that revelation, not trade as ordinary sale already distinguished in the text and not a later banking invent.

    from M.A.S. Abdel Haleem (translation) · The Qur’an, 2004 (this translation); Arabic text 7th century CE

    appears in · sourced · documented

sources

  • The Qur’an · M.A.S. Abdel Haleem (translation)

    M.A.S. Abdel Haleem, The Qur’an (Oxford).