The prohibition of interest and usury (riba)—the fundamental systemic blocker to sacred economics.
Interest (riba) refers to any predetermined, guaranteed return on capital that is not tied to real economic risk. In the monotheistic framework, riba is recognized as an extractive mechanism that leads to:
- Mathematical Impossibility: Debt grows exponentially while the real economy grows linearly, making systemic collapse inevitable.
- Wealth Concentration: Moving resources from the productive middle and working classes to the capital-owning elite.
- Artificial Scarcity: Requiring more money to be repaid than was originally created, forcing the system into perpetual growth and competition.
The elimination of interest (riba) is the first step toward the collapse of the money illusion and the transition to a risk-sharing, asset-backed wealth system.