subject: Forbidden Income in Islam: Restricted Areas [print this page] Forbidden Income in Islam: Restricted Areas
Forbidden Income is incumbent on every Muslim.
Islam prescribes legitimate means of income and forbids certain types of income:
O you who believe! Spend of the good things which you have earned, and of that which We bring forth from the earth for you, and do not seek the bad (with intent) to spend thereof (in charity) when you would not take it for yourselves save with disdain. And know that God is Absolute, owner of Praise.' 2: 267
Usury and interestis forbidden:
Those who swallow usury cannot rise up save as he arises whom the devil has prostrated by (his) touch. That is because they say: Trade is just like usury; whereas God permits trading and forbids usury. He unto whom an admonition from his Lord comes, and (he) refrains (in obedience thereto), he shall keep (the profits of) that which is past, and his affair (henceforth) is with God. As for him who returns (to usury): such are rightful owners of the Fire. They shall abide therein for ever.' 2: 275
God has blighted usury and made almsgiving fruitful. And God does not love the impious and guilty.' 2: 276
Intoxicants, gambling and lottery
These are to be avoided and considered as forbidden by the Tradition:
O you who believe! Intoxicants and gambling, dedications of stones and division by arrows (lottery) are an abomination, of Satan's handiwork: Eschew (such abomination) that you may prosper.' 5: 90
Cheating in commercial deals:
And do not eat up your property for vanities, nor use it as bribes for the judges, with the intent that you may eat up wrongfully and knowingly some of the other peoples wealth.' 2: 188
Fill the measure when you measure, and weigh with the right balance; that is meet, and better in the end.' 17: 35
And unto Midian (We sent) their brother, Shuayb. He said: O my people! Worship God. You have no other God save Him. Verily, a clear evidence has come unto you from your Lord; so give good measure and full weight and do not wrong people in their goods, and do not corrupt in the land after the fair ordering thereof. That will be better for you, if you are believers.' 7: 85
Verily, God commands you that you restore deposits to their owners. And if you judge among men that you judge justly' 4: 58
It is part of the law in Islam prescribing the circulation of wealth among All Muslims that forbidden income is decreed.
