Preamble
WHEREAS, the State, in Section 20, Article II of the Constitution, encourages private enterprise and provides incentives to needed investments; WHEREAS, under the Constitution, the use of property bears a social function, so that the consequences in law also must be defined by policy objectives related to property rights in productive enterprises; WHEREAS, toward this end, the Government has committed itself to the establishment of an Islamic bank that operates within a legal framework permitting the investors or participants the rights to equitable or beneficial share in the profits realized from financing productive activities and other operations: Now, therefore, THE CHARTER OF THE AL-AMANAH ISLAMICINVESTMENT BANK OF THE PHILIPPINESTITLE