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Make This Year Debt-Free

“Society offers you a deal: Get a student loan; get a college degree; get a mortgage and become a homeowner; build your life with a deck of credit cards. Just sign on the dotted line and before you know it, you’re on the hook for a house, a car, the basic “human needs” of cable TV, fancy restaurant visits, cell phone and gym subscriptions, and a house full of toys. After a few years, it’ll be hard to imagine life without all that stuff. You will, therefore, spend all your life working in a possibly unfulfilling job to pay the bills for all the things you signed up for. If your job brings you down, you buy something on credit as a reward, dragging you further into the spiral of addiction. You’ll be living a virtual debtor’s prison, except you’ll only see the bars if you miss a payment. If you have debt, you’re not a free person. You’re explicitly owned by your debt and implicitly owned by the creditor. You put 15% of your income into a retirement account for 40 years, plan to retire at 65, then try to spend the remainder of your life making up for lost time and health. Are you willing to take that deal? If not, there’s another way: Don’t accept the chains.” 

Here are the steps to getting your life back in financial order:

1. Make a schedule to get out of debt as soon as possible.

2. Live within your means: Everyone’s circumstances vary, but some of us replace medical expenses with healthy foods and fitness; entertainment expenses with enjoying family time; expensive schooling with cooperative schooling with like-minded families; gym memberships with the outdoors; restaurants with inviting and visiting friends; and so on.

3. Pay cash and stop buying on credit. For large purchases:

Home: Rent, buy a smaller place with cash, or slowly build a place after buying some inexpensive land. If you really must, finance through an AAOIFI-compliant Islamic bank checked out by a qualified Islamic finance scholar.

Car: Buy an older used vehicle with cash.

University: Work while attending, and supplement with grants and other interest-free financial aid options.

(Quoted source: Early Retirement Extreme: A Philosophical and Practical Guide to Financial Independence, Jacob Lund Fisker)







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Officially recognized by AAOIFI (pronounced “a-yo-fee”), the world’s leading standard-setting body in Islamic finance, Ethica's award-winning Certified Islamic Finance Executive (CIFE) and Advanced CIFE (ACIFE) earn you continuing professional development (CPD) credits

"The role Ethica has played in promoting the cause of standardization of best practices in Islamic finance, especially in the fields of Shari'ah and accounting, that too for the last two decades, is indeed praiseworthy. They have always put AAOIFI standards at the heart of all their certification and training programs for which we are grateful."

Omar Mustafa Ansari
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"I chose Ethica’s certification as it has an excellent reputation in the market and now I understand why. All the different modules cover the most important types of contracts from both a theoretical as well as a practical perspective and are complemented by a lot of clear examples. And the self-paced training permits excellent time management. I recommend the CIFE from Ethica Institute to everybody seriously interested in learning about Islamic finance."
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"We upgraded to twice as many users after only 6 months with Ethica."
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