Fixing the Global Financial System, A Modern Islamic (RIBA-FREE) Economy | Ibrahim Khan
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 1 มิ.ย. 2024
- 🙆🏻♂️ Our investment arm, Cur8 Capital - cur8.capital
We all see this Riba-filled economy and ask ourselves if there's a way to change the system? Ibrahim decided to answer that question by writing a 13,000 word whitepaper on the topic, but for those of you who want the executive summary, Khizar flips the table and interviews Ibrahim in this episode of the IFG Podcast.
Read the whitepaper: www.islamicfinanceguru.com/ar...
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We're Ibrahim & Mohsin - ex-city lawyers and authors of "Halal Investing for Beginners". We've been studying investments and the traditional Islamic sciences for 13+ years. Over the year we've been published by the Financial Times, the World Economic Forum, Foreign Policy etc.
Today we run a sharia-compliant wealth management platform that manages over $35m in assets. We make videos about investment, personal finance, careers, and entrepreneurship.
We do this to make downtrodden communities better-off. To take people of colour, Muslims, and minorities from being among the poorest in society to the richest.
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TIMESTAMPS
00:00 - Sneak peak
00:28 - Start of the podcast
01:26 - Why address this topic?
04:35 - Problems with Islamic Finance today
09:36 - Why the current financial system is broken
18:58 - Why are people not changing the financial system despite its problems
21:46 - How to start changing the system
28:14 - Why Islamic Finance hasn't worked in the past 50 years
34:40 - How to amend the trajectory of Islamic Finance today
38:17 - Practical steps to reforming the system
47:00 - The REAL Practical Roadmap to a TRULY Islamic Economy
51:09 - Is the onus on the Western Muslims or Muslims in Muslim-majority lands?
52:05 - Summarised thoughts
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We need more media coverage so that it will pressure Islamic banking system to move more gratually toward equity based financing and away from lending based . Thank you. Wasallam
Watching from Ethiopia 🇪🇹
IFG podcast hit with the uno reverse
Wonderful discussion brother. I agree most of the talk
Amazing, unparalleled video. Loved every second of it. More content on this topic please!
Masha Allah, have been looking for development on this exact topic, will definitely get round to reading the whitepaper insha allah
Very insightful episode brothers, Jazakum Allah khairan.
Masha Allah. Watching from Nigeria.
*_Masha'Allah, sound advice to a productive investor._*
Such an important area of knowledge and understanding required by Muslims in the modern day. We have to collectively either make the change or work towards achieving change through our combined spending and political power.
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I would love to see a video more detailed explaination on why the current financial system is broken
Check out the whitepaper linked in the description
Salaam. Please make a video on how to calculate Zakat on pensions. Jazakallah Khair
The actual question is that you do not have access to that money till retirement, and how will you pay zakat on money that you do not own. If you find a let me know.
Interesting perspectives on financial inclusion and sustainable wealth creation but I do not agree that debt financing is rent seeking in all cases. I’ll like to read his book and watch more of your concept of finance and banking. It seems interesting and I partly agree with him on equity financing being more inclusive. But you didn’t amplify the inherent risk in equity financing too. Not everyone/investor has patient-capital to deploy to equity.
What do you think about having one islamic currency so get more power to fight against modern banking
Osama from Glasgow here, thanks for the informative discussion. Two questions: 1) On the nature of money creation, how are the disadvantages and risks of the fiat system different from a gold based or crypto system? Rather than computers creating money, miners do. The latter also sound potentially inflationary and arguably more out of control. Why is it better and more stable? 2) On a shift to equity-based investing, won’t there always be low risk lending? Govts will not want to do equity shares on building bridges and hospitals. So sukuk type investments sound like they would always be there. From a demand side of things, won’t businesses prefer this type of capital than equity? One costs a few percentage on the investment each year, the other substantially gives away the business. How will that demand side by altered?
miners dnt create new bitcoins, bitcoins are limited from the ground up.
Ifg is a good step..perhaps you should expand and make ur presence in Asia..
Especially in china, mena, asean n sout asia
In e you’re done with uk please come and crack the French market we have a community as big as uk and we are soooooooo underserved for everything .
Also. I'm a bit confused. Using your casino analogy, I feel rather than work towards leaving the casino, why should we work towards becoming entrepreneurs within the same system???
islamic credit union, Ontario
@ifgguru how personal finance should design islamic finance way which rule should follow 50 2030 rule ya 504010 rule
Brother is your channel monetization enabled?
Here is my 2 cents on the matter
Bismillaah. In the name of Allah, the most Kind and most Merciful.
Governments have a responsibility to be prudent and act in the best interests of their citizens and economy. This responsibility extends to providing welfare as well as ensuring citizens have strong personal purchasing power. Of course, this all has to be done in a halal manner which is compliant with Quranic Sharia and pleasing to Allaah. This means removing ribah (interest) and coming up with alternative models - even a complete reworking if necessary - to ensure such a society.
It is also worth bearing in mind that “Halal” is not always the same as “Islamic”. For example you can slaughter a non-halal animal using the ‘Islamic’ zabiha method but it is still haram to consume because Allaah prohibited it in the book of guidance, the Holy Quran.
Therefore, Muslims must always be mindful of what is Halal (what Allaah decreed permissible) and what is Islamic (sometimes merely an applied label to something to make it sound virtuous).
From my studies, the best way to have a sustainable and strong economy is thus;
- print less money
- tax responsibly the citizens (these two alone offset the inflationary effect that overprinting has on a economy)
- spend the tax money into SUPPLY (rather than burdening taxpayers with debt) into infrastructure projects - thus creating jobs, services and facilities for people which bolster the economy and remain permanent thus always useful. ***
- look for strong trading partners and trade with your own domestic currencies at a fixed rate. For instance, Pakistan and Iran could trade between each other with Riyals and Rupees - at a fixed conversion rate of course and for a fixed quantity to stop corruption and overprinting of money.
- Also, establish a minimum income (not wage, but annual income) and use that as the basis of rate of conversion between one another so you can trade at a fixed rate thereby eliminating the corruptive evil of floating exchange rates.
*** Investment in infrastructure is the basis and bedrock for any civilised and functioning economy:
Roads
Motorways
Railway Lines
Airports
Bridges
Canals
Rivers
Reservoirs
Dams
Agriculture
Schools
Hospitals
Health services
Electricity power grids
Wind Power
Solar Power
Direct plummed water
Gas lines
Sewage system
Waste disposal means
Recycling centres
Water desalination
Etc etc etc
Once these have been created you can DESTROY the inflationary effect of that money through taxation (toll roads, entrance fees at hospitals, tax stamp duty on public services tickets etc) and then DO NOT recirculate it.
So, simply put;
- Create the money
- Spend it into supply via infrastructure projects
- Create jobs as a consequence
- Tax the projects at a low cost (but create high volume) and do not recirculate the money as a counter-inflationary measure.
Any excess money beyond the needs of supply (thus inflationary) can be called the Optimum level of Economic Activity can simply be destroyed and thus never recirculated.
You only just need the cash to allow this to happen in the first place.
The halal model is correct but it simply needs scaling up and in line with modern currency. However, the key thing is to keep it halal and pleasing to Allaah.
Start small, work up. Keep investing into projects to reinforce and strength the economy inshaAllaah
Wa'alaikum assalam wa rahmatu'LLAHI wa barakatuh
Trying to understand the view from Cur8 and what you speak about Muslims awareness of the world of money. You have two criteria set out with investor type. What about the Muslims who don’t fit into this criteria? Is there a way you can open up to more than just these two types of investors and if not, isn’t this part of the problem..
I'm concerned with some of your others videos where you claim islamic mortgages are permissible..
I don’t get this video. No substance to it.
Assalaamualaykum Ibraheem please let me know how can I contact u