Seadet-i Ebediyye - Endless Bliss Fifth Fascicle

on an earlier delivery of a lessened amount of the property.
23– Supposing two people, each in possession of a sack of
wheat, mixed their wheat without measurement and had the
mixture ground into flour; it will cause fâiz for them to agree to
divide the mixture into two.
24– It will also cause fâiz to mix the two amounts of flour, to
make bread from the mixture, and then to divide the bread. The
capacity of each person’s flour should have been measured.
25– It will cause fâiz to mix walnuts or almonds or olives
without measurement and then to share the oil extracted.
26– Supposing two people have a cow as their common
property; it will cause fâiz for them to share the milk on a ‘one dayfor
each’ basis.
27– Supposing two people have an ox or a horse or a car or a
shop or a field or a workshop as their common property; it will
entail fâiz if they agree on the understanding that each of them will
use it for a certain period of time.
28– It will cause fâiz to demand that your debtor will leave you,
as a rehn, a house on the understanding that you will live in it, or
a field on the understanding that you will farm it, or a car on the
understanding that you will use it. For, if you stipulate as a
condition that you (as the creditor) will be permitted to benefit
from the rahn (hypothecation, pledge) you are to keep, fâiz will be
involved (in the lending. Please review the final two paragraphs in
the second sub-division of the forty-fourth chapter).
29– It will entail fâiz to lend on the condition that you buy
something cheaply from the lender or sell him something for a
high price.
30– It will entail fâiz (for the State) to capitalize on the labour
of peasantry by providing money or seeds or land for them on
condition of partnership in more than half of the produce, or to
commandeer their land by lending them money, to farm their land
and leave them less than half of the produce. For, the amount of
rent has to be known, and property that has been lent has to be
returned in the same amount and kind.
31– It will entail fâiz to lend someone money on the
understanding that they will work for you in return for a low
payment or that they will give you a present or feast you.
32– It will also entail fâiz to cheat someone into buying
something for a high price from you or into selling you something
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