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Debt

. In Muhammadan law there are two words used for debt. Dain , or money borrowed with some fixed term of payment, and qarz , or money lent without any definite understanding as to is repayment. Imprisonment for debt is allowed. (Hidayah, vol. ii, p. 624.)

Upon the decease of a debtor, the law demands that after the payment of the funeral expenses, his just debts must be paid before payment of legacies.

To engage in a Jihad or religious war, is said by Muhammad to remit every sin except that of being in debt. [JIHAD, DAIN, QARZ.]

citations: Dictionary of Islam, Hughes

article created 2006-04-12 , last updated 2006-04-12

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