There were no complicated business arrangements. People trusted each other in those days. When you opened a shop, you would do your utmost to pay your creditors first... To be insolvent was a stigma. Traders tried to help one another. They helped others to open a shop. They lent money to one another without interest, but by and large it was a stigma to borrow. For Muslim merchants to borrow on interest was unlawful. 1 In this 1980 interview, the renowned journalist Faruqi Mehtar summarized popular notions among Muslims about …