Besides the responsibility to bear the cost of insurance, the bank will also put charges of termination or repossession of the contract to the customer. This is due to the reason of that the customer is the one who gain benefit from the assets; thus, the charges to terminate the contract will be considered as „penalty‟ to them as not taking seriously to own the leased asset with making sudden unplanned decision. Even though all scholars of all times and places have agreed
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upon the permissibility of leasing (Abdul-Rahim Al-Saati, 2003), this current practice of AITAB seems to duplicate the conventional collection and repossession procedure for hire-purchase financing, instead of following the existing ijarah concept. This is obviously against the original theory as Islam, which does not teach Muslim to overcome usury by competing with usurer at his own game