Definition Ijarah






Basically Ijara is based on Partnership Basis (which is purely HALAL). An example of car financing.
 
In Leasing, you have to pay a certain amount as down payment and the remaining amount is to be paid in installments. While in Ijara, bank & you purchase a car together in which bank has 80% share (investment). Now u r supposed to pay 2 type of amounts:
 
1-since u r the owner of only 20%, u have to acquire bank's 80% share so that u could become the owner of car. For that, you pay a certain mutually decided amount.

2-you have to pay RENT for using 80% of bank's investment. This rent will be decreasing because every month you will be acquiring bank's share & rent is paid according to bank's share.

Ijarah contract is more widely used nowadays than ever before, primarily due to the creation of large commercial enterprises since the dawn of the industrial revolution. As such, these terms and conditions should be common knowledge to all Muslims.


1. The property rented or leased must be in a useable condition (i.e., the lessee should be able to use the property for its intended purpose). Similarly, in a hire contract, the employee must be able to perform the job required of him or her.
2. Ijarah has to be for inconsumable goods.
3. The lessee or the employee is not permitted to use the subject in a manner contrary to what is permitted by the contract. Specifically, the lessee or the employee is not allowed to inflict any harm on the subject of the contract.
4. Ijarah contract cannot be made for a task that is a religious obligation. For example, it is prohibited to enter into an employment contract for leading the prayer of making the azaan. Ijarah is valid, however, for teaching the Qur’an or religious sciences, as well as secular subjects because these are not religious obligations.
5. If the two parties disagree on the value of the reimbursement or the rent/lease on the property, after the contract commences, the word of the lessor/employer is accepted under oath upto the time of disagreement. At that point the contract is then invalidated.
6. The majority of the scholars say that the Ijarah contract does not end by the death of one of the two parties, as long as both parties can fulfill their end of the contract. The Hanafis, to the contrary, deem the contract invalidated with the death of one party.
The term Ijara literally means rent, the Sharia process is known as Ijara-wa-Iqtina , rent with an acquisition or rent to own. The process of Ijara can be used for equipment as well as property. This Islamic finance process is very simple. A single asset Trust is created whereby the Trust purchases the property, and then leases the property to the customer. A portion of each monthly payment goes towards ownership, until the customer owns 100%.


When learned Ijarah contract, the arabic term Ijarah means “providing” services and goods temporary for a wage. The Ijara contract, involves providing products or services on a lease or rental basis. In the Ijara contract, a person or party is given the right to use the object (the usufruct) for a period of time, the owner retains the ownership of the assets.

Source: dummies.com
 
Leasing or Ijara is also frequently practiced by Islamic bank. Under this mode, the banks would buy the equipment or machinery and lease it out to their clients who may opt to buy the items eventually, in which case the monthly payments will consist of two components, i.e , rental for the use of the equipment and installment towards the purchase price.

Source: Islamic banking & finance, Prof.Dr Hans - Peter Burghof with Ahmad Abu - Alkheil and Ulli Spankouski


Ijarah: “to give something on rent”
  1. To transfer of the ownership over the usufruct of the asset
  2. To employ the services of a person on wages given as a consideration for his hired services
  Source: Ijarah in Islamic Banking or Islamic Leas, AIMS Lecture

A lease agreement whereby a bank or financier buys an item for a customer and then leases it to him over a spesific period, thus earning profits for the bank by charging rental. The duration of the lease and the fee are set in advance. During the period of the lease, the asset remains in the ownership of the lessor (the bank), but the lessee has the right to use it. After the expiry of the lease agreement, this right reverts back to the lessor.

Source: IFN, Islamic Finance News


“Ijarah” is a term of Islamic fiqh. Lexically, it means ‘to give something on rent’. In Islamic jurisprudence, the term ‘Ijarah’ is used for two different situatuions.
In the firts place, it means ‘to employ the services of a person on wages given to him as a consideration for his hired services’
The second type of Ijarah relates to the usufructs asset and properties , ‘Ijarah’ in this sense means to transfer the usufruct of a particular property to another person in exchange for a rent claimed for him

source: www. kantakji.com

Differences between Ijarah dan Convetional leasing:
Islamic financial institutuions adopetd it by making some relevant modifications in the structure of the leasing contract (i.e, its terms and conditions), in order to conform it to the rules of islamic shariah
In conventional leasing, instead of offering an interest bearing loan, banks and leasing companies provide to the lessess an asset along with the risk of ownership..

Source: www.hibamagazine.com/Ijarah-islamic-leasing

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