Yasir Qadhi's Video Series on Mortgages, Riba, and Islamic Finance: An Overview
Dr. Yasir Qadhi has addressed the question of mortgages and riba across multiple YouTube sessions, exploring the fiqh debate, the conditions under which scholars permit Shariah-compliant alternatives, and the core concepts of murabaha and musharaka.
Over several years, Dr. Yasir Qadhi has devoted substantial attention to the topic of Islamic home finance and the prohibition of riba. His video discussions — spanning formal Q&A sessions, live panel events, and dedicated Ask Shaykh YQ episodes — represent one of the more accessible English-language treatments of the subject available to American Muslim homebuyers.
Across these sessions, Dr. Qadhi engages with both the classical fiqh arguments for why riba is prohibited and the contemporary debate about whether the structures offered by Islamic finance providers genuinely resolve the riba concern or repackage it. He examines the definitions of murabaha, mudarabah, and musharaka, and discusses what conditions must be present for a transaction to satisfy scholarly requirements. His approach is notable for acknowledging internal scholarly disagreement rather than presenting a single position as settled.
He has collaborated in several of these sessions with Dr. Main Al-Qudah, a scholar specializing in Islamic finance, which has added technical depth to discussions that might otherwise remain at the level of general fiqh principles.
Key sessions to watch are embedded on his profile page. See also the official Yasir Qadhi YouTube channel for the complete library.
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