RE: Let's be a "fino señor 🗿🍷" helping people

Under the current financial systems, I agree with this statement:

"It seems to be difficult to work with finance without committing a sin, doesn't it?"

But in a reasonable financial system, (say if everyone deals with Gold Coins instead of Fiat Money,) it's not unreasonable to live your whole life without needing a transaction with interest or unlawful transactions, while Gold's value isn't stable, keeping it around doesn't mean you're losing value for doing so. ...but since Interest is linked to money value worldwide phenomen nowadays, not dealing with it actually means your money is losing value every year. Even when I try to not engage in it, the fact I'm knowingly doing so is difficult for me.

and yeah, this is true:

"The concept of Riba, to me, seems to be much more abstract than the concept of usury, and it seems to me to encompass many more cases."

Though there are different interpertations for what counts and what doesn't count as Riba, because if you take the teachings to an extreme, every monetary transaction will be Riba which we know isn't the case from what we know in history.

We also have a concept in Islam of "If you're put in a situation where you have no option except doing a sin, try to minimize it as much as possible" a good example of that is Pork... In Islam we're forbidden from eating Pig's meat, but in the (admittedly very rare) situation it's the only food around and not eating it will result in death, it becomes Halal (allowed) until the situation gets better.

So by that principle, I'm trying to learn what Riba is, and try to not do it as much as possible, but as I said it's very hard to avoid.

Sorry if I was offensive in any way, I'm really curious about Islamic religion and culture

Well, you're not sounding offensive here, but never make sounding offensive prevent you from speaking truth (or what you think is truth even if it's not) because we don't learn when all we hear is what we want to hear. Don't you agree?

Anyway, thanks for your comments, made me think a lot about this.