| Pain, Pleasure and Prejudice The Complete Layman’s Guide to the Koran Chapter 9 Slavery and Usury Sometimes it is difficult to ascertain the moral or ethical imperative on which Allah bases His instructions. For example, His condoning slavery and condemning the practice of lending money at interest. Both convey an economic advantage to the slave-owner and the money-lender respectively. The transaction involving only money however, can be to the benefit of both contracting parties. The transaction in humanity, on the other hand, usually benefits only the title-holder while confining the other (the slave) to a life of miserable servitude.
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