Erfanul Alam Siddiquee
Sometimes I just write randomly about whatever I feel like writing. I passionately learn about financial freedom, investing, Islamic finance, technology, and new inventions.
- Who Are You Running For? Live Like a Traveller Did you get a good break, or did your body rest while your mind kept running? A letter on who we run for, what the grave keeps, and the hadith that tells us to live like a traveller.
- Why the Takaful Fund Has No Capital of Its Own? Suppose you know a shopkeeper in your area. He runs a small electrical goods store and pays 40,000 a year into a Takaful
- Why Islamic Banks Lend Like Conventional Banks? Why do Islamic banks rely on murabahah, not profit sharing? The cause is an information problem, and tax e-invoicing data could fix it.
- Your insurer knows your blood group. It has never once used that to help you find blood I was holding a fresh bag of blood when my father took his last breath. That scene came back to me today while I
- Some Days I Think About Giving Up on Islamic Finance I need to remind myself why I am here. I came into Islamic finance because I believed it could be better than what I
- The mathematics of trust in Islamic financial systems Artificial intelligence (AI) cannot fix broken financial systems. Read why returning to community-based trust and patient capital prevents economic collapse.
- Credit-Linked Islamic Banking: Substance or Label? When Islamic banks bear only credit risk, products become indistinguishable from conventional lending. A diagnostic framework for testing economic substance.
- The Future of Insurance Supervision Explore the evolving challenges of insurance supervision. Learn how regulators use SupTech and risk-based strategies to ensure stability.
- How Zakat and Islamic finance almost bought freedom in Brazil Discover how enslaved African Muslims in Brazil created a Islamic financial system using zakat to buy their freedom. A forgotten chapter of Islamic finance history.
- What If Colonialism Never Disrupted Islamic Banking? Discover the sophisticated Islamic financial system that existed centuries before European banking and how colonialism erased it. A mind-bending look at the banking history you were never taught.
- Compound Interest Is at War with Physics What happens when an Islamic finance professional discovers that a Nobel Prize-winning scientist reached the same conclusion about interest—from completely different starting points?
- How Malaysia is Rewriting the Rules of Islamic Finance When a young strategist challenges the corporate status quo, he must turn a forgotten ledger into a lifeline for a flood-prone village—proving that the true rule of Islamic finance isn't just compliance, but survival.
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