What is a Halal Mortgage?
What is a Halal Mortgage?
A car dealer can buy a car for $1,000 and sell it for $1,200 making a profit of $200, which can be expressed as 20%. On the other hand, a person can lend someone a $1,000 dollars and demand that the borrower pays it back as $1,200, thus making a 20% interest.
The difference between the two scenarios, from a Shariah point of view, is that the 20% made from selling the car is a permissible profit (as it involves taking risk of ownership in the items being sold), while the 20% interest on a loan is the pure definition of prohibited Riba (where the lender did not put any work or take on any risk to earn such increase).
As per Islamic requirements in respect to financing, Manzil’s relationship with the customer is a relation of a seller to a buyer for Murabaha or a partner for Musharaka, and not a lender to a borrower as it is in conventional lending.A lender lends money and is repaid with more money (i.e. interest which is prohibited from a Shariah point of view), while Manzil finances the transaction through buy and sell activities or a partnership, so that there is a profit on the transaction, and not interest (Riba).
As per Islamic requirements in respect to financing, Manzil’s relationship with the customer is a relation of a seller to a buyer for Murabaha or a partner for Musharaka, and not a lender to a borrower as it is in conventional lending.A lender lends money and is repaid with more money (i.e. interest which is prohibited from a Shariah point of view), while Manzil finances the transaction through buy and sell activities or a partnership, so that there is a profit on the transaction, and not interest (Riba).