The Role of Custom in Defining Money and Cash in Islamic Law

Abstract

Islam did not come to deny people's customs and destroy their traditions and heritage, but came to improve them and distinguish between malicious and the good, and eliminates what is contrary sharia, and proves what agrees with them, so people's customs became considered in Islamic law, and is a source of legislation, and many of the provisions of sharia are due to custom, especially when there is a conflict and difference. Money and cash may be considered a doctrinal issue based on custom, and after consideration and research it has been found that there are significant customs in matters of money and criticism that jurists have built doctrinal issues on, and there are null customs that cannot be relied upon. Custom plays an important role in determining what money and cash are, since custom is changing as well as what it has relied on will change, so we see that the concept of money and cash has changed differently than before, everything that existed before. State officials have issued papers, minerals or what people have come to know as money, and the word cash in our time is more comprehensive than it used to be.