DEBT

In Muḥammadan law there are two words used for debt. Dain ( دين‎ ), or money borrowed with some fixed term of payment, and qarẓ ( قرض‎ ), or money lent without any definite understanding as to its repayment. Imprisonment for debt is allowed. ( Hidāyah , vol. ii. p. 624.) Upon the decease of a debtor, the law demands that after the payment of the funeral expenses, his just debts must be paid before payment of legacies. To engage in a Jihād or religious war, is said by Muḥammad to remit every sin except that of being in debt. [ JIHAD , DAIN , QARZ .]