Are Muslims allowed student loans?

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There may well be a lot of plausible reasons to compare fairy tales and religions. But that doesn't answer why there is the need to refer to religions (as a whole) as "fairy tales" (ignoring the fact that fairy tales are short stories and I think it's fair to say no religion can be described as "short"). Why not just use the word religion and state the various issues using that terminology?

Using the word "religion" confers a massively privileged status on the thing you're referring to. Using the word "faery tale" does not. That's an important difference and a valid reason for not using the word "religion". If a person is opposed to something, why should they give it massively privileged status every time they refer to it? That's counter-productive for their purpose and it requires them to do something they consider ethically wrong, to help something they consider harmful.

I'm in two minds about it myself, but I understand that there is a good reason to avoid elevating some fantasy stories to an immensely privileged status by calling them "religion".
 
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I'm sure this is all helping Lunar work out how to advise their daughter.
The update is, we have reached a decision. Last week I sat down with my daughter and completed the loan application online. It was not easy because at various stages I had to keep reassuring my daughter that I will help pay the loan off asap. The appearance of 6.1% interest on the screen did not help.
We received a response and the loan was approved within 5 days.
 
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Muslims cannot take loans where interest is incurred.
with all the honesty I can gather it
Seems like the propet (something be his name) had some pretty good ideas. . Obviously the original meaasage got corrupted. Obviously you should not be screwing younger generations for Insane interest rates ..
 
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The update is, we have reached a decision. Last week I sat down with my daughter and completed the loan application online. It was not easy because at various stages I had to keep reassuring my daughter that I will help pay the loan off asap. The appearance of 6.1% interest on the screen did not help.
We received a response and the loan was approved within 5 days.
I can't comment on the challenge of balancing best interests and religion, but I know that going to uni will massively enrich your daughter's life. I was very wary of all borrowing but bit the bullet and went to uni at 26. I finished last year, having had 4 years of feeling very much "This was a great decision". Landed a job I would never have had a chance at and got a promotion today. So best of luck to her :)
 
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