based on a number of passages from the Quran (the Islamic sacred book) namely Sum (verse) 2:275, 276 and 278, Sura 3:310, Sura 3:39 and Sura 4:161. Siddiqi (2004) points out that these verses imply 5 reasons why riba is prohibited in Islam namely that it: Corrupts society: this is derived from the asso