References: Message-Id: <20240326.142030.f153a47b@mixmin.net> Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2024 14:20:30 +0000 Subject: Re: Visa, Mastercard Agree to Lower Swipe Fees in Settlement Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: D Newsgroups: misc.news.internet.discuss Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!3.eu.feeder.erje.net!feeder.erje.net!news2.arglkargh.de!alphared!sewer!news.dizum.net!not-for-mail Organization: dizum.com - The Internet Problem Provider X-Abuse: abuse@dizum.com Injection-Info: sewer.dizum.com - 2001::1/128 Bytes: 1258 Lines: 13 On Tue, 26 Mar 2024 09:01:00 -0500, JAB wrote: >merchant fees "Those who swallow down usury cannot arise except as one whom Shaitan has prostrated by (his) touch does rise. That is because they say, trading is only like usury; and Allah has allowed trading and forbidden usury. To whomsoever then the admonition has come from his Lord, then he desists, he shall have what has already passed, and his affair is in the hands of Allah; and whoever returns (to it) -- these arc the inmates of the fire; they shall abide in it." --Surah Baqarah 2.275 Qur'an (trans. M. H. Shakir)