This is an interesting discussion of the basics of Islamic finance.

They make the pertinent point that Islam (like all religions prior to Protestantism and socialism, which both separated money and religion) sees money as a tool to serve God by creating wealth that can be used to raise up humanity, rather than the pursuit of money being a worthy goal, in and of itself.

And that socialism was a reaction to the amorality of Protestant finance, which helps explain why it arose in Germany. 🤔