What is the difference between usurious (riba-based) investment and halal investment?
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There are many ways of investment because the basic principle in transactions is permissibility. As for usurious investment methods, they include every transaction that involves usury, such as selling a usurious item for a usurious item with a differential or equal amount on credit, or selling a usurious item for another at a deferred payment, or lending with the condition of an increase, or Bay' al-Inah (a type of sale with repurchase), or Bay' al-Muzabanah (a type of bartering involving unknown quantities); this is due to the ignorance of equivalence which takes the place of knowledge of differential.
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