@SafdarAlam ... The weight assigned to Islamic commitments determines whether Muslims merely adapt existing structures, recombine them into partial alternatives, or generate new institutions shaped by a different moral and civilizational logic."
@SafdarAlam Just breezed through it. Very nice. The qualitative aspect, or weight, is also something I mention in my paper. "Muslim institution-building cannot simply inherit the dominant architecture of modern systems and add Islamic language or ethical concern at the end..."
You sign a £300,000 Riba mortgage.
The bank had nothing.
They typed £300,000 into your account.
Took them 5 minutes.
Over the next 25 years you pay them back £550,000.
That £550,000 is your wages. Your overtime. Your weekends. Your sleep.
For them it is pure profit. They created the money from thin air. They have no cost to recover.
5 minutes of their typing.
25 years of your life.
That is the trade.
The government allows it.
You were not given a mortgage.
You were enslaved by one.
That's why it's Haram!