Forbidden Acts Quotes
Usury in orthodox Muslim terms means the charging of interest. Modern Islamic societies have developed a variety of methodologies for dealing with the usury prohibition yet functioning in a modern capitalist system. Orthodox Jews also have a Biblical prohibition against loans with interest. Fundamentalist Protestants of some sects also believe that loaning or borrowing money and charging interest is a sin prohibited by God.
Interest is forbidden in all transaction, both business and personal.
The “People of the Book” are the Jews and the Christians who believe in the Old Testament book of God which Muslims recognize. Others who would not accept Islam would be killed, but if Jews and Christians are submissive and fell so, they may pay a special additional tax, the Jizyah.