INTEREST IN ISLAM AND OTHER RELIGIONS
Keywords:
religion, interest, social, economy, politicsAbstract
The concept of interest has a very ancient history, its peculiarity is that the first writings prove that it was considered hated and evil in all religions. Interest was forbidden and unacceptable in the Jewish religion, as well as in the Christian one. But the Jews, after the Prophet Moisi allowed the taking of interest by the non-Jews for them, claiming that the wealth of the non-Jews is permissible, according to their belief the Jewish people are the chosen people, therefore they have priority and value over all other peoples. So other people, who are non-Jews, they treat as inferior, worthless and have the right to manipulate them as they please. Allah, the Exalted in the Qur'an, conveys their claim: “They (Ahl al-Kitab, the followers of the Book) used to say: 'We have no responsibility for (the wealth we take) from the ignorant (others).” (Quran, 03 : 75)
The treatment of interest as a bad thing is also followed by many ancient philosophers. It is established that the eminent Roman theorist and orator Marcus Tullius Cicero had banned usury in his writings. Even the ancient Greek philosophers, such as Plato in “The Republic” and Aristotle in “Politics”, forbade usury.
Despite the belief in the hearts of people in general that interest work is not pure, yet all the systems known to people today have not survived the contemporary momentum that violates all norms and foundations of humanity and free conscience. Christians, although they clearly know that this is a sin in their religion, failed to withstand the storm of numerous interest-bearing transactions, so they surrendered and, instead of opposing it, gave way to permitting. of interest. On the other hand, Islam is the only system that has remained in this battle and continues to fight this habit, even though it has become the daily routine of many people.
We have mentioned above the attitudes of the earlier laws and systems for taking interest in order for the reader to understand that the prohibition of interest is not specific to Islamic jurisprudence, as he can understand it now in modern times, as only Muslims speak of its haram
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