Incongruity in Contemporary and Shari'ah Compliant Current Accounts and Ijārah Operated by Islamic Banking

Abstract

Current accounts and Ijārah has been foremost and important tools operated by the Islamic Financial Institutions. This study attempts to explore a few misgivings in the handling of current accounts by the Islamic banks in Pakistan. Financial management of Islamic banks is not under consideration which leads to the violation of Shari'ah’s fundamentals. Also, in case of Ijārah, a bank’s client suffers from financial losses which must be borne in Islamic Banking system. Islamic Banks transfer the burden of some charges emerging form ownership of leased asset on their clientele which does not have any justification according to Shari'ah. This research has been carried out by taking unstructured interviews from some of the concerned staff of Islamic Banks. The results depict that current accounts and Ijārah is in operation and need to be revised and refined and must comply with Shari'ah

Keywords

• ijārah
• current accounts
• islamic financial institution
• financial losses