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Week 8 Ethics
1. Economic
Mecca was a prosperous commercial town but economically
unequal. The Quran responds by 102:1-4 in order to minimizing
manifold.
Banning of usury: term of grows several-fold used by Quran to
attract Arabians who are interested in usury since pre-Islamic
(jhiliyyah) period. Spend in the cause of Allah rather than invest
2. Sociopolitical
Beginning with relation in family: filial piety (31:14), even for
idolatrous parent: father of Ibrahim who denied his teaching, but