Istisna'
Understanding Istisna' in Islamic banking.
Islam
Islam
Transcription
- Istisna ' Murabaha is convenient for customers who require to purchase a product or an asset, but how can an Islamic bank offers the necessary finance for those who require to set up factory, a commercial centre or a housing compounds without resorting to taking loans with profit? Islamic banks have created the Istisna' contract to satisfy this purpose. Istisna' is based on demanding the workmanship and under which a Mustasne' person asks a manufacturer (Sane's) to make a depicted thing (masnou') such as a wooden cupboard or an instrument made of brass or a building … etc. The Prophet, peace and prayers be upon him had ordered the manufacture of an iron ring for him. Istisna' is one of the old contracts that had been developed through centuries to suit people's need. Under this contract alSane' the maker undertakes to complete the depicted product in a predetermined period, while the person requesting the product (alMustasne') is obliged to pay the price if it satisfy the terms and description of the depicted product. It is worth noting that the manufacturer (alSane') is not obliged to carry out the work himself, whereby if he manage to find the product in the same depicted elements they had been originally agreed upon then he can buy it and hand it over to the person who requested it. He can also order the manufacturing of same product by another manufacturer. Since the customer requires finance, the financial intermediation of the bank can then be carried out by virtue of Istisna' contract so that the manufactured product (masnou') can be completed, (a commercial building for example), thereby allowing the bank to be a manufacturer. Then the bank conclude an agreement with a contractor to make the product for the bank. The relation here exists between the contractor and the bank and not with that customer in most cases. The bank then pays the price in cash and then the customer makes payment in installments in accordance with the agreed terms of payment. It goes without saying that the price which will be paid by customer to the bank in installments will be more than the price paid by the bank in cash to the contractor, the difference between them is the bank's profit.
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