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Variable Profits Are Not Enough: A Response to Miftah Ismail on Islamic Banking

Mr Ismail is right that Pakistan's Islamic banking has become a change of vocabulary more than a change of substance. The harder truth is that reforming the contracts is necessary but not sufficient, because the currency in which they are written is itself born of interest.

M Azim Abdul Majeed · 2026-06-12

Islamic Finance · 23 min

The Authenticity Crisis in Islamic Finance

A critical examination of risk-sharing, profit calculation, and the 'debt merchant' paradox in modern Islamic Financial Institutions. A Socratic inquiry into the gap between Shariah theory and banking practice.

M Azim Abdul Majeed · 2026-02-01

Islamic Finance · 7 min

Islamic Finance: Have We Avoided a Sin Only to Commit a Greater One?

In our meticulous effort to avoid the sin of Riba, have we inadvertently created a system that commits a greater one, the sin of abandoning the Ummah? In our focus on the letter of Shari'ah, have we forsaken its very spirit?

M Azim Abdul Majeed · 2026-01-02