Honestly, I am in good financial shape because the only common sense part of Sharia is when it comes to finance.
Conservative, long term thinking. Not the gambling that Wall St turned into the past few years with CDOs and default swaps
I have 0 debt, have saved plenty of money, and just got a pretty big raise by switching companies
More so because I think I took a common sense approach to my personal finance, which is the only part of Shaira that is fairly common sense based.
I am actually amused this is being covered now, because these practices have been around Muslim communities in North America for a couple decades now
Thanks for sharing your story. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not saying I disagree with the Islamic approach to finances. It’s the implication by the PC SacBee that financial responsibility and restraint are somehow exclusive to Sharia (and are missing in Judaism and Christianity, the practice of which the paper would never endorse.