brother if you become a muslim, i will celebrate, inshaAllah I welcome you to the religion of truth abumaryam --- On Wed, 3/4/09, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote:
From: [email protected] <[email protected]> Subject: Bismillah [IslamCity] I am neither a Muslim nor a Banker !!. To: "eGroup For Muslims Around The World" <[email protected]> Date: Wednesday, March 4, 2009, 3:26 PM Mr. Madoff and , an alternative. .......to Madoff I am not a banker and I am not a Muslim. But I do trust Islam far more than all the banks. Lately, the financial-world went up-side-down and banks are now worth only their real-estate- values , almost. Billions and Billions are pumped into a cadaver called the stock-market or the world-of-finance. Industries are not spared neither, Jobs are lost and the future is dark. One sleepless night, I watched a TV documentary about the "ethics of finances" and "banking-ethics" which are applied in the Western-world. One phrase by the commentator struck me, when he said : " ....such an occasional high moral standards in the West , is only normal and constant among the Islamic-banks. ....." unquote Then I started cruising in my mind and in my memory, looking for any recent or even old financial-scandals among any Islamic-bank. And I could not find any example , not remote nor recent. There must be some magic formula that Islamic-banks do apply constantly that keeps them solid and irreprochable. I do not know it precisely because because , I am neither a Muslim nor a Banker. Also , only yesterday , I was trying to explain to my children how come Halal-food is healthier than my normal-christian- cooking. But I could not convince them why and they decided to refer rather to a Medical person , instead of me. What I fear now , is that my children will ask me , very soon, to explain how come Muslim Banks are more solid than others and also why the Christian-financial -world is run by "non-Christiansm" and never by the Muslims !! ( or by the Shariaa-laws ) I honestly do not know the correct answers, therefore it is time ,maybe for me , that I become a banker, or even better , I become a Muslim !! Raja Chemayel 05.03.09
