Cancer. COIVD-19. Interest. What do they all have in common? They can grow exponentially and then even kill the host. In this post, we link the mountain of consumer debt that is now collapsing on the economies around to the compound interest. In Islam, interest is haram. But what is surprising is that even pre-Islamic civilizations understood there was a problem with the “magic” of compound interest and would reset the debt record. In the post, we also explore how Islam offers an alternative mindset when it comes to both debt and consumerism.