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Islamic Book Sale, save at least 15% off
bhaloo
11/05/00 at 21:31:47
slm Check it out, pre-Ramadan sale!!! http://islamicbookstore.com/2000sale.shtml

Re: Islamic Book Sale, save at least 15% off
mahsou411
11/05/00 at 21:41:57
Salaamu Alaikum, Do these on-line muslim businesses accepts checks or do yo have to have a credit card? I hate using them because if riba but I would like to buy books and tapes online anyway. Anybody know? Ma'aslaama

Re: Islamic Book Sale, save at least 15% off
bhaloo
11/05/00 at 22:22:22
slm If you always pay your credit card bill on time every month then there is no riba involved.  That bookstore has the largest selection of books that I know of.  I'm planning on stocking up on a few. :) With regards to riba and credit cards here is what was asked of Shaykh Muhammad ibn Saalih al-‘Uthaymeen: Credit cards include conditions based on riba (interest/usury) – if you delay payments, they charge an extra penalty. But in the place where I live in America, I cannot rent a car or a shop or use many other services unless I have a credit card. If I do not use a credit card, I will suffer unbearable hardship. If I commit myself to make the payments within a certain time limit, so that I do not have to pay the interest charges, will this allow me to have a credit card and thus relieve some of the hardship I am facing? The shaykh, may Allaah preserve him, answered as follows: If the hardship he is facing is certain, and the likelihood that he will delay payments is remote, then I hope there is nothing wrong with him having the credit card. Question: Do the conditions relating to interest make a transaction invalid or not? Answer: If a contract contains an invalid condition, this does not invalidate the entire contract, for a number of reasons: (1) necessity, (2) because it does not really affect anything. The man thinks that he is going to make the payments before interest is due. Because this is more likely than the condition of having to pay interest, and because it is necessary – which is the main point – I hope that there is nothing wrong with it. We have a definite matter – necessity – and a matter which is not necessarily going to happen – which is delay in payment – and the matter that is definite takes precedence over something which may not even happen. And Allaah knows best.
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