INDONESIA - BANKING - MUI: Credit is Not Halal Riba

REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, Soreang - Questioned on the issue of halal haram in the process of buying and selling on credit, Chairman of the MUI Regency Bandung, KH Safiuddin Anwar Kamil asserts that the credit is allowed and certainly not unlawful. Credit is not permitted and usury when through certain requirements.

"Credit different from the name of usury," he said in a discussion held at the RM FIF. Rice Village, Soreang, Tuesday (24 / 1). Anwar added that credit is the process of buying through a gradual manner. Credit is allowed when the distance between the seller and buyer are not mutually harmed. (source)

EVENTS - CONFERENCE - CALL FOR PAPERS - 2nd World Conference on Riba ( deadline March 31, 2011)

 CALL FOR PAPERS

The Riba Conundrum: Impartial outlook from accounting, legal and religious perspectives. 

 “Hence, while the Qur’anic condemnation of the concept and practice of riba is unequivocal and final, every successive Muslim generation is faced with the challenge of giving new dimensions and a fresh economic meaning to this term which, for want for a better word, may be rendered as ‘usury’”

                                                              Muhamad Asad The Message of the Qur’an

Date: 18th-19th July, 2011
Venue: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia 

As a sequence to the highly successful 1st World Conference on Riba that was held in Kuala Lumpur on the 1st and 2nd November, 2010, Thinkers Trends Resources in collaboration with the Department of Finance, Kulliyyah of Economics and Management Sciences, International Islamic University Malaysia and International Islamic University College Selangor (KUIS) is pleased to announce the organizing of the 2nd World Conference on Riba to be held  on the 18th and 19th July, 2011 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (source)

REGULATIONS - FIQH - Malaysia To Host 1st World Conference On Riba

PRLog (Press Release) – Oct 19, 2010 – Kuala Lumpur, 20 October 2010: The 1st World Conference on RIBA scheduled to be held in Malaysia on 1 and 2 November 2010 will set the stage for an in-depth and comprehensive deliberation on RIBA or Interest from all perspectives.

The conference will see the gathering of eminent scholars, business and industry leaders, politicians and government officers, policy makers and regulators, general public and students from all over the world.

VIDEO -The Prohibition of Riba (interest) Imran Hosein (2 clips)

All in all more than 140 minutes of lecture (probably 2008 - 2 clips)

VIDEO - LECTURE - Mufti Taqi Usmani on RIBA

Lecture of Mufti Taqi Usmani on RIBA (6/6 parts + 1/1 and Q&A)