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What is the Islamic ruling about mortgage?
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All perfect praise be to Allaah, The Lord of the Worlds. I testify that there is none worthy of worship except Allaah, and that Muhammad 
is His slave and Messenger.
Mortgage is confirmed by the Book of Allaah and the Sunnah of the Prophet and by the consensus of the Muslim nation. Allaah Says (what means): {And if you are on journey and cannot find a scribe, then a security deposit [should be] taken. And if one of you entrusts another, then let him who is entrusted discharge his trust [faithfully] and let him fear Allaah, his Lord.} [Quran 2:283]
Moreover, ‘Aa’ishah 
said: “The Prophet died while his shield was mortgaged with a Jew for 30 Saa’ (A Saa’ equals approximately one and half kilogram) of wheat.” [Al-Bukhaari and Muslim]
Also, the scholars of the Muslim nation 
agreed in a consensus that Mortgage is permissible.
Finally, it should be noted that according to the opinion of the majority of the scholars the mortgage is only valid when the mortgagee takes hold of the mortgaged object, and this is the view of the Shaafi’i School of jurisprudence as well.
Allaah knows best.
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