Spread of Riba (Usury) and Intoxicants Under New Names
In brief
The widespread consumption of riba (usury/interest), indifference to whether income is lawful or unlawful, and the normalization of intoxicants by calling them by other names.
The Prophet ﷺ foretold: 'A time will come upon people when a man will not care from where he acquires wealth, whether from halal or haram' (Bukhari 2083), and 'People from my Ummah will surely drink wine, calling it by other than its name' (Abu Dawud 3688, Ibn Majah 4020).
Among the minor signs that spread across society and intensify alongside open sin and commercial materialism.
Guard the purity of your provision (rizq) and shun both riba and intoxicants regardless of how society renames them.
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Where it sits in the sequence
Phase 2 · Signs that spread among people
The narrations do not put these in order, and many of them overlap. Sahih al-Bukhari 7121 lists several together.
What scholars have said
Scholars cite it as having appeared
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Muhammad ibn Abd al-Rasul al-Barzanjid. 1103 AH
Places the spread of riba (usury), ceasing to care whether wealth is halal or haram, and rebranding intoxicants under permissive labels among the signs that have appeared and continue to intensify.
al-Isha'a li-Ashrat al-Sa'a, ch. 2
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