Gharar () literally means uncertainty, hazard, chance or risk. It is a negative element in ''mu'amalat fiqh (transactional Islamic jurisprudence), like riba (usury) and maisir (gambling). One Islamic dictionary (A Concise Dictionary of Islamic Terms) describes it as "the sale of what is not present" — such as fish not yet caught, crops not yet harvested. Similarly, author Muhammad Ayub says that "in the legal terminology of jurists", gharar is "the sale of a thing which is not present at hand, or the sale of a thing whose aqibah'' (consequence) is not known, or a sale involving hazard in which
Gharar () literally means uncertainty, hazard, chance or risk. It is a negative element in ''mu'amalat fiqh (transactional Islamic jurisprudence), like riba (usury) and maisir (gambling). One Islamic dictionary (A Concise Dictionary of Islamic Terms) describes it as "the sale of what is not present" — such as fish not yet caught, crops not yet harvested. Similarly, author Muhammad Ayub says that "in the legal terminology of jurists", gharar is "the sale of a thing which is not present at hand, or the sale of a thing whose aqibah'' (consequence) is not known, or a sale involving hazard in which one does not know whether it will come to be or not".
==Definitions, fiqh== According to Sami Al-Suwailem, "researchers in Islamic finance" do not agree on the "precise meaning" of gharar, although there is not necessarily great difference among the Islamic schools of jurisprudence (madhab) in the term's definition.
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