Interest = insha’Allah munaffah.
The second thing, the impact is the same in your pocket. This is a manipulative control built to make sure you as a customer pay your rentals on time. After all, the bank is a Financial Institution and exists to earn either Conventional or Islamic. Although it is stated that profit and loss are always shared between the Islamic bank and the customer but eventually every business turns into profit, that’s the miracle of Islamic banks. No bank is out there to give you something with NO PROFIT. If you have to pay any extra amount other the decided amount that’s interesting and that’s Haram. Simple is that.
Argument 2: Also, back to the popular car lease case study.
Interest is one source of the bank’s profit. Using the term “Islamic” is just a marketing strategy to target unknowledgeable “holy people” who cover their eyes like an ostrich. How Islamic Banking works is purely Islamic until the procedure is followed as per the timeline. If not so, then why penalty or donation % is the same as the interest rate in case of a late fee. Interest on loose cash does not have anything liable object attached. In case you don’t pay back, the bank will ask you for money that you don’t have. In case you don’t pay for your car the bank takes your car away.
Not 100% Halal but Better is Islamic Banking Pakistan
Then is it just the change of name with more or less the same non-Islamic financial system? There is an ocean of differences between Islamic and conventional banking. But that difference is more on the soul and logic side of a transaction rather than the facade or front of it. Islamic banks receive bank deposits from all types of individuals and companies. The fact is that normal people don’t understand the basics of Islamic financing and/or the fundamental line of thinking which leads to illogical and ill-informed opinions in society. I would say you rather speak to a few people who are actually knowledgeable in this field and who can help and advise.
Well in Islamic banking treating credit cards as debit cards is a good approach. Spend what you have, and avail facilities at the same 0 percent interest rate. Secondly, Ijarah or Diminishing Musharikah is a totally fine model of Financing not only authorized by Mufti’s or Allamas but yet authorized by State Bank and AAOFI (International Institution for Islamic Financial matters) so if your state authorized some Islamic Banking then God forbid if it’s wrong then sin is not on you. There is a Persian saying…
الا بلا ب گردن ملا …
Islamic banking and finance are not 100% Islamic so far, but it does adhere to some Islamic principles. It is an effort to provide an alternate model for the banking and finance system, like all endeavors, it has its own flaws and deficiency because it is still evolving, but it is an effort in which everyone should play a part so that the goal to achieve an ideal state without even any little bit of discrepancy can be achieved. All companies like Unilever, Siemens, and even local co-operation take bank loans or are involved globally in a bank activity that involves Interest. So everything is haram. You currently need to start from somewhere if Islamic banking is encouraged then I do assume a day will come to all banks in Pakistan follow the same structure, therefore, taking away the last interest filth. You won’t start nothing will change.
Finance says money is interchangeable and mental accounting is a BIAS. This means the amount you budget to be expensed out on furniture can be used to buy groceries. There should be a clear and crisp understanding of religious rules in terms of lending and borrowing and the general conventional banking rules. The fundamentals, policies, and parameters of Islamic Banking are different from that of conventional Banking. Yes, there is a factor of interest that consists of Kibor and spread, yet the execution of the transaction is what matters. Giving an example, why do you ask the butcher to recite Bismillah before slaughter, because that assures that this execution has completed the requirements to make it halal.
Understand what KIBOR is?
KIBOR as only a pricing benchmark. A pricing mechanism. KIBOR is KARACHI INTER BANK OFFER RATE which is decided daily by almost 20 banks by 11:30 a.m. Kibor is implemented by State Bank so every Islamic Bank has to follow the market rule implemented by State Bank.
The Case of IBOR or IIBOR: KIBOR in Islamic Banking
Islamic Banks Proposed their Islamic Banks Offer Rate which is still to be implemented. Despite a summary is already on the desk of the Governor of the State Bank of Pakistan for the past 10-12 years but it’s not been approved as yet with the issue that Islamic Banks and divisions are not even 30% as compared to the conventional bank’s. Unfortunately in Pakistan IBOR (ISLAMIC BANKING OFFER RATE) is not implemented despite having Trillion of Deposits, so this is the reason State Bank ordered all Banks to make their Islamic windows so that after a decade or so deposit and transaction sizes match up.
