The
Prophet confirms the greatest danger of Riba
This opinion of ours appears to be confirmed by the fact
that the Prophet (‘alaihi alSalam) himself prophesied, in a Hadith
received from Abu Hurairah (ra), the eventual total success of precisely such an attack launched through Riba.
It would be an attack launched obviously by enemies of Islam, but it
would penetrate all of mankind, including the followers of Prophet Muhammad (‘alaihi
al-Salam):
“There will come a time,” said the Prophet,
“when you will not be able to find a single person in all of mankind who will
not be consuming Riba. And if anyone claims that he is not consuming Riba then
surely the vapor of Riba will reach him.” According to another text “the dust
of Riba will reach him.”
(Sunan Abu Daud)
The Prophet ((sallalahu ‘alaihi wa sallam) thus made
it abundantly clear that the greatest danger to the integrity of the Ummah and of the Iman (faith) of the
believers would come from Riba. This confirmed the warning from Allah
Most High Himself that was manifested in the choice of Riba as the
subject of the last revelation.
The prophecy of the Prophet (sallalahu ‘alaihi wa sallam)
concerning the universal prevalence of Riba has today been
fulfilled. Indeed it has been fulfilled in our own miserable lifetime! Specifically it has been fulfilled during the time
that has elapsed since the Ottoman Caliphate was abolished in 1924. Up to 1924
the Riba-based capitalist European economy could not succeed in
penetrating the economy and the market of the Muslim world. But Europe did
succeed in enticing the governments that presided over the affairs of Muslims
to enter into Riba. The Ottoman Caliph, for example, had borrowed
considerable sums of money on interest from Europe. His financial and economic
difficulties grew to such an extent that he was forced, as a desperate means of
preventing the collapse of the Empire, to seek membership in the new European
secular State system. He achieved this in the Paris Peace Agreement of 1856.
But the price he had to pay was to succumb to European/Jewish financial blackmail
that extracted from him the abolition of
Jizyah and Ahl al-Dhimmah in all the territories of the
Ottoman Empire. This was also a quid pro quo for debt and interest
payment relief. In doing so the Caliph betrayed Allah Most High Who had Himself
established the jizyah tax in
the Qur’an (al-Tauba, 9:29).
The success of Euro-Jewish bankers in targeting the Ottoman
Caliph was a classic example of the financial imperialism, which is made
possible through Riba. Henry Kissinger was the author of the same
strategy that eventually led to the collapse of a super-power in modern times,
the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR).
That event should have opened the eyes of the ‘Ulama of Islam. It
did not! As a consequence the same strategy continues to be pursued by the International
Monetary Fund and the World Bank, and by so many others. Not only is Israel’s
economy based on Riba but Israel is also embracing Arafat’s PLO and
other Arab regimes with precisely the same deadly economic embrace which
reduces the target of the embrace to poverty, destitution and economic slavery.
The success of European/Jewish financial blackmail witnessed the beginning of
the dismantling of the sacred model of a public order in the world of Islam
(Dar al-Islam), and of its replacement with the secular European model.
In that model of a State, ‘sovereignty’ was taken away from Allah Most High and
was located, instead, in the State. That was an act of Shirk!
Indeed, since 1924 Riba has penetrated the total
economic life of Muslims all around the world. The financial imperialism
inherent in Riba has delivered the entire world of Islam by its
very throat into the hands of enemies with sharpened knives. Indeed all of mankind
is now trapped in the worlds of Riba and Shirk. Not only has the
prophecy of the Prophet (sallalahu ‘alaihi wa sallam) been fulfilled
through the total victory of Ribabased
banking all over the world, and through the Riba that is inherent in
nonredeemable artificial money, but it has also been fulfilled in the total
corruption of the free and fair market. Today's so-called free market is, in
fact, a ‘den of thieves’, in which the strong exploit the weak.
Finally, the Prophet (sallalahu ‘alaihi wa sallam) himself
echoed the extreme gravity and dire warning
in the Qur’anic revelation by using the strongest possible language in connection
with Riba:
“Abu Hurairah (ra) said that the Messenger of
Allah said: Riba is of seventy different parts, the least dangerous being
equivalent to a man marrying (i.e., having sexual intercourse with) his own
mother.”
(Sunan, Ibn Majah;
Baihaqi)
“Abdullah Ibn Hanzala (ra) reported that the
Messenger of Allah said: A dirham (silver coin) of Riba, which a man receives
knowingly, is worse than committing adultery thirty-six times. (Ahmad). Baihaqi
transmitted it, on the authority of Ibn Abbas (ra), with the addition that the Prophet
continued to say: Hell is more fitting for him whose flesh is nourished by what
is Haram.”
“Abu Hurairah reported Allah’s Messenger as
saying: On the night I was taken up to heaven I came upon people whose bellies
were like houses which contained snakes which could be seen from outside their
bellies. I asked Gabriel who they were and he told me that they were people who
had consumed Riba.”
(Musnad, Ahmad; Sunan, Ibn
Majah)
“Abu Hurairah (ra) reported that the Prophet
said: Allah would be justified in not allowing four persons to enter paradise
or to taste its blessings: he who drinks habitually (i.e., drinks alcohol), he
who takes Riba, he who usurps an orphan's property without right, and he who is
unmindful to his parents.”
(Mustadrak, al-Hakim,
‘Kitab al-Buyu’)
The Prophet (‘alaihi al-Salam) also reaffirmed the
declaration of war from Allah and His Messenger in connection with the
prohibition of Riba in the following Hadith:
“Jabir Ibn Abdullah (ra) said: I heard the
Messenger of Allah say: If any one of you does not leave mukhabara he should
take notice of war from Allah and His Messenger. Zaid Ibn Thabit said: I asked:
What is mukhabarah? He replied: That you have the land for cultivation for a half,
a third, or a quarter (of the produce).” (The danger here is that it leads
deceptively to slave labour.)
(Sunan, Abu Daud)
It should be clear from the material presented above that
the establishment of an economy based on Riba is a very great sin
indeed. Consequently it most certainly violates the divine conditions for
inheritance of the Holy Land.
to be continued....
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