REVENGE

[ QISAS .] RIBĀ ( ربا‎ ). “Usury.” A term in Muslim law defined as “an exce according to a legal standard of measurement or weight, in one or two homogeneous articles opposed to each other in a contract of exchange, and in which such exce is stipulated as an obligatory condition on one of the parties without any return.” The word ribā appears to have the same meaning as the Hebrew ‏נֶשֶׁךְ‎ neshec , which included gain, whether from the loan of money, or goods, or property of any kind. In the Mosaic law, conditions of gain for the loan of money or goods were rigorously prohibited. See Exod. xxii. 25 ; Lev. xxv. 36 . [ USURY .] RIBĀT̤ ( رباط‎ ). A station or fort on the frontier of an enemy’s country, erected for the accommodation of Muslim warriors (Hamilton’s Hidāyah , vol. ii. p. 357.)