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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kaparthy, post: 4462677, member: 57463&quot;]I have a couple of questions. First, is it not true that Islam prohibits lending money at interest? (Even Aristotle made that argument: it is natural for sheep to multiply themselves, but money is not a living thing. So, multiplying money by interest is unnatural.) In Islamic business practice, the lender becomes an active partner in the business. The invention of the corporation as a joint-stock company brought a change in Europe (and America). So, strict Muslims would not take a seignorage in their coinage. They would have to pay for the Mint by some other means.</p><p><br /></p><p>And, based only on the movie <i>Khartoum</i> (sorry), is it not true that the Mahdi is the Redeemer of the Second Coming? Just asking to clarify the meaning of the inscriptions and put the Ummayyads of Spain into context.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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