Re: [GNC-dev] Interest

2018-12-12 Thread David Cousens
Hamid, What would you envisage a loan calculator for a zero interest loan providing? How would you envisage such a calculator dealing with the five loan types often encountered in Islamic finance e.g. Murabaha Mudarabah Ijara Musharaka Wakala. As far as I can see these are all dealt with by

Re: [GNC-dev] Interest

2018-12-12 Thread Hamidreza Jafari
On چهارشنبه ۱۲ دسامبر ۲۰۱۸ ۱۷:۳۱:۲۱ (+0330) Christopher Lam wrote: Many on the list are mentioning that the scenario is possible but simply not provisioned in the part that does it automatically which here it is the calculator. The stress so far evident in discussions causes one to question if

Re: [GNC-dev] Interest

2018-12-12 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 12/11/2018 11:07 PM, Hamidreza Jafari wrote: I didn't follow Michael D Novack. Though I can clarify on some issues that were mentioned. Hamid Sorry about that. I was not expecting many on this list to understand, but there can be MORE differences between Western Civ "interest" loans and no

Re: [GNC-dev] Translation

2018-12-12 Thread Christopher Lam
Reply for qu.2 below On Mon, 10 Dec 2018 at 11:16, Hamidreza Jafari wrote: > 2 - There are some parts of the application which I find contrary to what > is a > major belief. That of interest. Can the application handle interest-free > AKA > zero interest loans and mortgages? > Of course

Re: [GNC-dev] Interest

2018-12-12 Thread Christopher Lam
Hi I am not an original developer on this loan assistant. However I think that the original loan druid was designed to calculate/estimate the loan repayment amounts, assuming a conventional loan, with a non-zero interest rate. If the interest rate was zero, there would be little need for a loan