Bible trivia? Or how about the Koran?

[RodISHI]

Can anyone repeat a basic rundown on what the Bible says about borrowing and lending?






For those who know the Koran. Does the Koran say anything about borrowing and lending?

 

[Kalam]

I'm not especially familiar with the specifics of Islamic banking and finance. Basically, the Qur'an permits borrowing and lending so long as interest isn't collected on loans.

O you who believe, devour not usury, doubling and redoubling, and keep your duty to Allah, that you may be successful. - 3:130​

And whatever you lay out at usury, so that it may increase in the property of men, it increases not with Allah; and whatever you give in charity, desiring Allah’s pleasure -- these will get manifold. - 30:39​

 

[foggedinn]

The borrower is servant to the lender.

 

[BigBarry]

In Islam you can borrow his wife or his daughter, but not his camel.

 

[amrchaos]

In Islam you can borrow his wife or his daughter, but not his camel.

According to the Younger Edda, you must repay in kind or expect your property razed!!

 

[JBeukema]

Believe it or now, despite what Shogun would tell you, debt forgiveness was pat of the Jewish system


every seven years, if I recall

 

[jillian]

Believe it or now, despite what Shogun would tell you, debt forgiveness was pat of the Jewish system


every seven years, if I recall

true.

that's where the statute of limitations on suit for contract came from (at least in NY), I believe...after the end of the sixth year (and start of the seventh), the debt is forgiven.

 

[Kalam]

In Islam you can borrow his wife or his daughter, but not his camel.

'Sup Al. Nice sock puppet account you have there.

 

[foggedinn]

Believe it or now, despite what Shogun would tell you, debt forgiveness was pat of the Jewish system


every seven years, if I recall

All debts are to be forgiven in the year of the Jubilee; every fifty years.

A Hebrew may sell himself into servitude for a period not to exceed seven years, or the year of the Jubilee, whichever comes first. He may redeem himself or be redeemed by a kinsmen at any time.

Many of this country's original settlers payed for their passage to America by selling themselves into bonded servitude for seven years.