Cigar wrapper leaf is in a class of its own, bringing prices 10 times that of other tobacco. Speculation is not acceptable in Islam and measures would have to be taken to control speculative trading. In addition short selling and margin trading are severely restricted. The use of stock index and equity futures and options are also unlikely to be acceptable within an Islamic market. Regulatory authorities in Muslim countries will therefore find a vast array of problems in attempting to structure a trading system that will be acceptable.
Life is like invading Russia.
The enemy burns Moscow and you yield to General January, whose fingernails are very icicles. Eventually you fall beneath a boy-gunner s grapeshot while crossing some Polish river not even marked on your general s map. Think, try to be calm. One or two shreds of happiness fill it to overflowing, whereas it has room for all the miseries of mankind. A man's soul is pierced as it were with holes, and as his longings flow through each they are transmuted into something specific.