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EQUITY VS DEBT
Tuesday, January 20, 2009
Equity
Equity    
Represents an investment exposed to all kinds of business risks and sharing in the profits of the business    
Debt    
Shariah prohibits any return on Debt.    
All wealth creation should result from a partnership between investor and the user of capital in which rewards and risks are shared    
  Equity Debt
Investor Both Investor and user share profit and loss Only User of capital gets profit or loss. Investor gets fixed profit.
User of Capital    

 

1. Txn based on interest violate equity aspect of economic organisation
2. Interest based system discourages innovation, particularly SMEs.
3. In Capitalist market economy, Commercial banks falls under debt channel.
4
Monetary demand
Inflation
 
4. Interest based system is security oriented rather than growth oriented.
Shariah prohibits concentration of wealth in a few hands and breeds inequalities in society.
Shariah encourages maximum welfare for the maximum number of people.
 
Treatment of deposits with Interest
Islamic bank act as trustee (Mudarib) Instead of borrower from depositors
islamic bank rely on a kind of joint venture or mutual participation between customer and bank to generate profits.
 
Profit sharing enterprise
1. Shirkah al-inan / Limited partnership
2. Mudarabhah / dormant partnership
 
Contract :
1. Offer and acceptance (ijab and qabul)
2. Consideration :
3. Capacity
4. Legality
5. Absence of duress
 
Types of Contract (7)
1. Al Tamlikat (Acquiring of ownership)
 
 
2. Al Isqatat (releases)
3. Al-Itlaqat (permissions)
4. Al-Taqyidat(restrictions)
5. Al-Tauthiqat (Securities)
6. Al-Ishtirak (Partnerships)
7. Al Hifz (safe custody)
In a nutshell, traditional setting involved simple commercial, agricultural or manufacturing ventures. No. of investors are limitted. Today contemporary economic requires flexible framework. Profit Loss sharing company can accommodate this.
 
Risk (Gharar) is forbidden
1. Txn where seller is not in a position to hand over the goods to the buyer
2. Item or commodity for sale cannot be immediately acquired eg., sale of fruit which has not yet ripend, fish or birds not yet caught
3. Speculative investments trading and stock market
4. Txn where purchaser is not given opportunity of inspecting goods before purchase.
 
Equity Based Financing
1. Al-Mudharabah - Trustee profit sharing
2. Al-Musharakah - Joint venture profit sharing
 
Debt based financing
1. Deferred contracts of exchange (Al-bai, al-tijaraj and al-dayn)
2. Deferred lump-sum sales (bai al-murabahah)
3. Leasing (al-ijara)
4. Salam sales (al-salam - capital financing)
5. Manufacture sale (bai al-istisna)
 
Debt financing contract
1. Al-bai bithaman Ajil (financing the acquisition of assets through deferred installment sales)
2. Al-Ijara (Financing the use of services of an asset through leasing)
3. Al-Ujr (fee based syndication services)
4. Al-Murabaha (Letters of credit : Deferred lump-sum sales or cost plus)
5. Al-Murabaha (financing working capital : deferred lump-sum sales or cost plus)
6. Salam (financing the acquisition of assets in the future: forward purchase)
 
Debt Securities
Deferred Contracts of Exchange
1. Al-bai bithaman ajil (deferred sales)
2. Bai al-murabaha(defered sales)
3. Al-ijara (leasing)
Loans
1.Al-qardh al-hasan (benevolent loans)
Refinancing of Assets
Bai Al-inah
posted by ismailraja @ 7:18 AM  
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