لماذا يحرّم الإسلام الربا؟

The Qur'an permits trade and forbids riba, as in the verse of Al-Baqara 275. Riba is forbidden in the law, and the details of its rulings and types require the books of jurisprudence.

The Qur'an states that God permitted trade and forbade riba, as in Al-Baqara 275. This is the basis for the prohibition of riba in Islam. The prohibition of riba is one of the rulings that people often ask about in modern financial dealings, and it is linked to the section on the lawful and the unlawful in the entry The lawful and the unlawful. The detailed rulings on riba, its types and its forms in contemporary transactions are a subject of jurisprudential study. For this reason, this entry sets out the basis without detailing the forms of transactions.

Details and disagreements are added in the related entries.