{"id":389,"date":"2011-09-15T08:37:01","date_gmt":"2011-09-15T06:37:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/imranhosein.org\/n\/?p=389"},"modified":"2024-02-07T12:32:33","modified_gmt":"2024-02-07T12:32:33","slug":"i-can-not-afford-to-buy-a-car-or-house-without-asking-the-bank-how-do-i-escape-riba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/imranhosein.org\/o\/i-can-not-afford-to-buy-a-car-or-house-without-asking-the-bank-how-do-i-escape-riba\/","title":{"rendered":"I Can Not Afford To Buy A Car Or House Without Asking The Bank, How Do I Escape Riba?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"id_4e71b81b6f8d87c39609903\" class=\"text_exposed_root text_exposed\">\n<p>I Can Not Afford To Buy A Car Or House Without Asking The Bank, How Do I Escape Riba?<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<br \/>\n&#8220;You can if you want, go the way of the world. Let me tell you my way:<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve attended 5 Universities.<br \/>\nI was a Diplomat in the foreign service of my country (Trinidad).<br \/>\nI gave up that job.<br \/>\nMany Pakistanis told me I was a fool; only a fool will give up a job of a Diplomat to become a Mullah.<br \/>\nIf I didn&#8217;t give up that job, I couldn&#8217;t be today with you (preaching Islam).<br \/>\nSo there are things in life that money can not buy. I am now almost 70 years of age.<br \/>\nI never had a house. In 2005 I built the ground floor of my home with 1 bedroom. And then just before I left Trinidad (early 2011) to come on this lecture tour I was able to build the upper floor with 2 other bedrooms.<br \/>\nThat&#8217;s how houses were build long time ago. I didn&#8217;t go to a bank to borrow money to build a house, no.<br \/>\nI lived in a rented apartment. I lived in New York for 10 years&#8230; in a small cubby apartments. Couldn&#8217;t afford (anything better). But I did that to remain faithful to Islam&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>I left New York in 2011 after having lived in the United States for 12 years.<br \/>\nThe car I was driving was worth $500.<\/p>\n<p>So there is that way which is the way of the world; you want a big job, you want a big house, you need a big car, go ahead and borrow your money on interest.<br \/>\nAnd when you&#8217;re in the Hell-fire, don&#8217;t call me. Don&#8217;t call me on the phone, don&#8217;t send an email from Jahannam.<\/p>\n<p>Or you can go the other way. The other way is, even if I have to give up house, and give up car and give up job, give up my home and give up my town, and flee to a cave in the mountain, I would prefer to do that. But I&#8217;m not giving up my Deen (Islam).&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"text_exposed_root text_exposed\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"text_exposed_root text_exposed\"><em>Transcribed and posted by brother Deenuzzaman Choudry<\/em><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I Can Not Afford To Buy A Car Or House Without Asking The Bank, How Do I Escape Riba? &#8230; &#8220;You can if you want, go the way of the world. Let me tell you my way: I&#8217;ve attended 5 Universities. I was a Diplomat in the foreign service of my country (Trinidad). I gave up that job. Many Pakistanis &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,13],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/imranhosein.org\/o\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/imranhosein.org\/o\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/imranhosein.org\/o\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imranhosein.org\/o\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imranhosein.org\/o\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=389"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/imranhosein.org\/o\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2769,"href":"https:\/\/imranhosein.org\/o\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389\/revisions\/2769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/imranhosein.org\/o\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imranhosein.org\/o\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imranhosein.org\/o\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}