Coming back from meeting with JPA today, I was immediately reminded by my housemate that I had a package waiting for me in the hall. I can't remember buying anything online for the past few days. When I tried to guess the content of the package, I could tell right away that it was a book. Huh, since when did I buy a book? For sure it's not a textbook.
But I was wrong. I did order a book and it was on Wednesday. Haha, what a memory I have!! Actually, I expected it to be thicker since I paid 20 dollars for it. Uh, never mind. I remember ordering a copy when listening to live Ilminar from AlMaghrib Institute entitled "Navigating Through Volatile Times". One of the speakers is the co-author of this book.
Basically, it was a discussion about the financial market crisis that is brewing right now and how unregulated riba-involving transactions are leading to the collapse of the market. Even though the speaker used a lot of jargons that I could barely understand, it was hard to say that I had no interest at all about the topic being discussed. Moreover, I'm taking a course in Finance next quarter, so, I have to be mentally and physically prepared. I had the feeling that learning about Western interpretation of financial capitalism can be a bit challenging considering how Islam is against riba, gambling and speculation. That's why I wanted to know more about Islam's approaches towards finance and investment.
By the way, the title of the book is "A Muslim's Guide to Investing & Personal Finance". I'm really looking forward to reading it since Suhaib Webb had already given it a pretty good review in his blog. Flipping it through, I could see some colorful and attractive illustrations here and there. It's gonna be a not-so-boring-finance-book I guess.
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