Screening of stocks at Muslim Xchange (MX) is based on the Shariah standards adopted by some of world’s leading institutions and indices. The business or industry screen is based on what most major Shariah standards agree on. We have been working with a reputed Shariah advisory firm with over 15 years of experience in the field to develop and deliver the best possible Shariah screening of stocks. The screening is done by Faraz Omar, an AAOIFI-Certified Shariah Advisor and Auditor.
Business Screen
We screen out companies in the following types of business
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Impure Income
Most Shariah standards tolerate a 5% impure income limit for companies earning from halal and haram sources. According to the standards adopted at the S&P, DJIM and MSCI, the 5% limit excludes interest income. However, AAOIFI and FTSE standards include Interest Income. We have updated our screener to include all of these standards.
Financial Ratios
In this screen, we check based on five different criteria as set by AAOIFI, FTSE, DJIM, S&P, and MSCI standards.
If the stock passes either of the five criteria, it is marked as a PASS. We also include a ranking system wherein, for example, a stock that passes all five standards is marked with five stars.
AAOIFI checks for Non-compliant Debt and Non-compliant Assets against the company’s Market cap. The ratio should not exceed 30%. Impure income (including Interest income) must not be more than 5%. FTSE checks for Debt, Cash, and Cash + Account Receivables against Assets. The ratios must not exceed 33.33% for the first two and must not exceed 50% for the Cash+AR. Impure income limit is similar to that of AAOIFI.
DJIM, S&P and MSCI do not include interest income in the Impure income screen. This is because Interest-bearing securities like Cash are already being screened against. DJIM checks against a 24-month-average of Market cap, while S&P uses a 36-month average. MSCI checks against Assets like FTSE but also has a tighter measure for Cash+AR, which it only allows at 33.33%. DJIM’s ratios are at 33% for Debt, Cash and AR (separately). S&P’s is similar excepting for AR, their limit is at 49%.
The above Islamic methodologies are explained in the reports issued by the respective standards.
Limitations and Disclaimer
One of our current limitations is that we assume debt in non-Muslim countries is interest-based. If a company has interest-free debt, then our screener will not differentiate. No work is without error and we are always a work in progress. We do not offer any personal investment advice. Please do your due diligence and check with a Shariah advisor before making an investment. We welcome your feedback, questions, and criticisms. Jazaakumullahu khairan!
AsA, I see an overwhelming amount of brothers in the West trading options. What is your viewpoint on this?
Certainly not permissible. I have an article on it in Muslim Ink magazine’s latest issue. The article should be out soon as well in sha Allah.
You can read it here: https://www.muslimink.com/finance/is-options-trading-halal/
I have pre selected mutual funds through my jobs 401k plan. I have selected 100% stock fund with no bonds. What can I do with the percentage of non halal companies the mutual fund is invested in?
It’s better to put this question to a scholar, to be honest brother. Jazaak Allahu khairan!
السَّلاَمُ عَلَيْكُمْ وَرَحْمَةُ اللهِ وَبَرَكَاتُهُ brother Khalid & others,
You’re most likely looking to purify your investments and that could be difficult and majority of funds chosen are usually blended funds and they make it difficult to identify the right amount There is a simple way this can be handled.
You can opt for the self direct option and use a financial advisors assistance to buy sharia compliant stocks in the first place. I’m a financial advisor and would love to help clear up the air with regards to this. You or any other Muslim brother needing advice on investment related is under no obligation to work with me.
Habib Anwar
habib@shariaportfolio.com
9708898812
Assalamo alaikum Br Faraz,
Jzkl khair an for this great tool!
The members of the Sisters Trading Community in Canada are very excited to use the screener. We love the detailed information and the layout and interface also look great alhd.
Two questions came up from the group, will you be adding UK tickers to the screen and are there any plans for MX to be offered as an App?
Jzkl khairan for your hard work, may Allah SWT reward you for your service.
Walaikum assalaam wa rahmatullah Sr Ayesha,
Aameen, thank you so much! Jazaakumullahu khairan! Yes, in sha Allah, we will be adding more markets in the coming months, starting with Canada and UK, and mobile apps as well. Alhamdulillah really happy to hear your feedback.
Assalamu alaikum, May I know how one can join the sisters trading group?
Above states “We check the stock’s debt against three screens: Debt to Assets < 33%, Debt to Assets < 45% and Debt to Market Cap <33%. The Financial Ratio is considered a PASS if the numbers clear either of these conditions. "
Sorry if I'm being dumb but I don't get that…why not just say Debt to Asset < 45% and Debt to Market Cap < 33%?
i.e. leave out the Debt to Assets <33%.
Because if it's 33.1% Debt to Assets it will pass. Or am I missing something?!
Ah ok figured it out sorry.
It’s either
A) Debt to Assets < 33% OR
B) Debt to Assets < 45% AND Debt to Market Cap <33%
You’re first inference was right brother. The stock has to clear either of the three. Certainly it’s kind of redundant when you say 33% and 45%. But we have that in place because many Standards are around 33% with the exception of the Indonesian one at 45%.
So just pointing it out that this particular stock either passes all three types or only two or only one.
Just additional info for investors to help in their decision making.
It is really a very good initiative, in sha Allah might be a helpful tool for many Muslims across the globe. May Allah SWT guide and bless you for all the hard work.
Aameen, thank you very much, jazaakumullahu khairan!
Salaam.
Just to be clear, I can create a company with $1million of capital investment and then take on $300,000 conventional interest bearing loan from the bank and then start selling shares in my company and I’m Islamic?
Walaikum assalam wa rahmatullah brother,
If your business is not “dodgy”, then Shariah-compliant, yes. Islamic, no 🙂 Please have a look at this article to understand the background and reasoning for why scholars have approved it.
Assalam-o-Alaikum brother, Jazakallah for the effor. There is a great need for such Sharia compliance screeners for ETFs as well. If you can kindly look into it as well, it will be a great service for the community.
Walaikum assalam wa rahmatullah brother,
Jazaak Allahu khairan for your comment. Will try in sha Allah
Asalamualaikum Br Faraz,
Jazakallahu Khayr for developing this application. I have a question. I currently reside in North America and usually trade on USA stocks. I see that few of the stocks that I usually trade on are shown compliant over here but on other apps it’s shown as Non Compliant. Could you please clarify on this matter? Thank you for the keeping service as free. 🙂
Walaikum assalam wa rahmatullah brother,
Baarak Allahu feek. Thank you for kind comments. There may be more than one reason why this may happen. The Shariah screening methodology may be different in the other apps. It is best if we know the reason why a stock has been labeled non-compliant and then perhaps we can compare and provide a clear explanation 🙂
Dear Brother Faraz,
as salamu alaikum wa Ramadan Karim,
Mabruk to your easy to use tool. Which market cap you use, last day, at reporting time of the financials or any smoothening method? A lot of differences can be explained by that.
I added your website to the names of screening tools. Myself did an open source google sheet to calculate AAOIFI debt and liquidty filter plus zakat for investors based on zakatable assets method.
Please join my telegram group on Islamic Stock Screening: https://t.me/islamicstockscreening
All the best,
Michael
Walaikum assalam wa rahmatullah brother Michael
Welcome to MX! Happy to hear your comments, alhamdulillah, jazaak Allahu khairan!
Yea, we’re using last reported for market cap and we update every month. In sha Allah we are also considering if a 12-month avg would be better, but there’s pros and cons.. Allahu Alam
السلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته
One thing that I would like it to be addressed is “Purification” , I know purity on Dividends is due, but what about on profits made from stocks.
I mean, one earns profit from buying and selling stocks as an active trader and doesn’t not hold stocks longer then a week or month.
The Aim is to make active Income from trading. So in this case does one has to purify their earnings, if yes, then at what percentage ? .
جزاكم الله خيرا
Walaikum assalamk wa rahmatullah wa barakatuh,
Apologies for the late reply. Regarding profits from stock trading, there is a difference of opinion among scholars if one needs to purify capital gains. While some scholars say we must purify capital gains as well, many scholars say it is not necessary to do this because it is not possible to calculate the small % of the haraam portion in the share price, when the majority of the company’s assets are halal. Allah knows best.
Mostly Dividend is suggested to be purified, you may consider the higher Earnings per Share, which can be found easily and calculate the 5% on that. This should be covering the aspect sufficiently inshallah.
Capital Gains are mostly not considered and as a trader you pay already full rate of 2.5% Zakat for trading goods.
Salaam.
Very nice website. Found through google. Allah make you successful and jazakAllah for this website. Please include UK stocks FTSE 100/250 and AIM stocks.
Walaikum assalam wa rahmatullah,
Thank you and welcome to MX! In sha Allah we will in the coming months 🙂
As salam alaikum Brother Faraz, great work MashaAllah. May Allah SWT reward you immensely, ameen. I couldn’t find some tickers eg. SLGG, UVXY, TZA. Would you kindly be able to add them as well. JazakAllahu khairan.
Walaikum assalam wa rahmatullah brother,
Ameen, jazaak Allahu khiaran. In sha Allah an update is overdue!
Can you guys please add otcs again. I use it as a general reference in order to decide whether it’s halal. The information needed to determine if a otc is halal is all on otc market.com. That’s has the most up to date description along with financials.
Assalamu alaikum brother,
OTC’s QX and QB US are available. International and Pink aren’t. We excluded Pink because of the limited information and regulation, even according to the OTC Markets itself. Quoting from their website:
We found that many companies provided false/misleading/incorrect descriptions to their actual business activity. This makes it impossible to give accurate screening results unless we manually investigate the thousands of companies listed in the Pink market.
CGIX merged and changed its name to VYNT. If you could kindly update that. JazakAllahu khair.
I like the science behind your screener, but some of the compliant stocks are not tayyeb. It’s the equivalent of eating halal versus “organic” halal. The companies may have good leverage but their non-Islamic mission automatically rules them out as halal (ie: Pfizer/Moderna [harmful ineffective genetically-modifying mRNA vaccines], Tattoed Chef [harmful pea protein], Microsoft [Bill Gates!] and so forth. You are gleaning stocks in terms of their mixed assets but the halal nature of the investment is IMPORTANT. We must strive not to invest in things that are destroying mankind, for some of these imposters will reflect as shariah-compliant with impressive debt-to-equity ratios and be ultimately haraam. And Allah Knows Best!
Those are rumors/conspiracy theories that are not based on any evidence. Scholars and Muslim scientists/doctors have checked the vaccines and have passed them as permissible. Please refer to: Beware of Rumors At Times of Crisis
Masha Allah!, what a wonderful effort !
Everyone really needed a site like this
Thank you to all the brothers involved in the project and I hope you will continue to develop it
I wish you guys good luck
Jazaak Allahu khairan brother!
Dear MuslimXchange,
Thank you for such a good and free to use website and Data, may Allah give you ajar.
I am curious to know whether do you have any scholars in your screening committee, can you share information about your screening committee.
Amin Khan
Aameen, jazaak Allahu khairan. We consulted scholars and reviewed the rules while building it. We do not have an official shariah board at present but are working on it and hopefully we’ll have one soon in sha Allah.
It would be great if you could provide lists with complaint stocks, within each category.
What I mean is, let’s say you would have one list called semiconductors, all the complaint stocks under that category would be listed. Same for Online Services, REITs etc.
Let’s say I would like to invest in REITs, this would allow me to see all the companies I can invest in
like for Indian markets there is Annual Subscription from http://www.tasis.in/userfiles/images/TASIS%20Rate%20Chart%2016_01_2020%20(Revised).jpg
You can download / export the Shariah Tolerant list of stocks for free from https://www.ansaar.in/ for the Indian Stock market.
Assalamualaikum MuslimXchange,
I’m so glad for finding this page and thanks to everyone involved in this screener and shariah assessment
All the company I want to search were available in this page, however I can’t find NEWEGG COMMERCE, INC (NEGG)
Please advice
Walaikum assalam wa rahmatullah
Jazaak Allahu khairan brother. In sha Allah we’ll be adding more stocks very soon.
Walaikum assalam wa rahmatullah brother
Alhamdulillah, jazaak Allahu khairan. In sha Allah we’ll be adding more features soon and releasing an app as well.
Assalam alaikum!
could the brothers analyze Russian stocks?
Great site! may Allah strengthen you on the way
Walaikum assalam wa rahmatullah
In sha Allah brother. Jazaak Allahu khairan! Aameen
Assalamu alaikum,
I wondered if the Nintendo stock is halal regarding business numbers.
Also i read Nintendo wants to start a theme park and make movies about their characters like Seuper Mario.
The question ist will the stock become haram then or must be checked if the movies are including haram ?
Assalamu alaikum Warahmatullahi wabarakatuhu,
my Name is Bilal and im from germany.
I wanted to ask if you can add the following Stocks to this website and to see if they are okay to invest in:
Snowline Gold (SNWGF) WKN: A2QQBD ISIN: CA83342V1040
MMC NORILSK NICKEL PJSC (NILSY) WKN: A2DHRG ISIN: CA49741E1007
Impala Platinum Holdings WKN: A0KFSB ISIN: ZAE000083648
Energy Fuels Inc. (UUUU) WKN: A1W757 ISIN: CA2926717083 (I did find it on the Website but there wsnt enough information if it is Halal or not.)
I thank you very much for making these Matters easier for the ummah to reasurch throu you.
I would love to support you in any way possible. if there is a way i could support this Website Please let me know.
Jazakallahu Khairan
Bilal Shaikh
Walaikum assalam wa rahmatullah wa barakatuh Brother Bilal
Welcome and jazaak Allahu khairan for your kind comments! in sha Allah we’ll try to check. We’ll have an update soon in sha Allah in which there will options for paid add ons/subscription. Just remember us in your du’aas brother! Thank you very much.
Salam Aleykum.
I wanted to know how often you update the compliance of the stocks?
I.e.
$BBIG shows here as compliant, whereas in Zoya it shows as non compliant, and i am stuck tbh.
Thank you.
Walaikum assalam wa rahmatullah
At least once a quarter. Jazaak Allahu khairan
I have a question is BBig stock halal?
Assalamu alaikum, hope you’re well.
On what basis can anyone in the world legalize stock trading when there is as stated: “Debt to Assets < 33%, Debt to Assets < 45% and Debt to 12-month Average Market Cap <33%."
What Islamic source is this based from? The salafi scholars have said that it isn't allowed at all to invest in companies with interest bearing loans (regardless the percentage).
Jazakum Allahu Khairan
(apologies, reposting this same post so that I get notified by email if someone replies. please ignore previous post. thanks)
Assalamu alaikum, hope you’re well.
On what basis can anyone in the world legalize stock trading when there is as stated: “Debt to Assets < 33%, Debt to Assets < 45% and Debt to 12-month Average Market Cap <33%."
What Islamic source is this based from? The salafi scholars have said that it isn't allowed at all to invest in companies with interest bearing loans (regardless the percentage).
Jazakum Allahu Khairan
Salam,
Where are you getting this data from?
Even if you are switching to AAOIFI, can you still keep the ISSI criteria available to be seen for the stocks on your website? You are the only site who have been using them, they are more reasonable in my opinion.
hmm.. well, if there are enough people asking for it, then we can in sha Allah. And we are not just moving to AAOIFI, we will have multiple standards including AAOIFI so you will get that combined flexibility in sha Allah.
Thank you Sheikh. I think it would be of benefit to people still following that methodology, and whatever effort you put forth would be greatly appreciated.
Will look into this brother. Can’t promise as of now. And I’m not a sheikh. jazaak Allahu khairan!
Peace upon You,
Is MAERSK B A P MOLLER MAERSK B Industrials Equit a Hallal stock, please?
Allah bless You
Does the website has a constant update of the financial data about the companies??, some companies might not be compliant to Shariah but due to its updated financial report it became compliant and vice versa.
Can I fully rely on this website or should I do my own research ?
We update at least once a quarter. You hope the information provided helps you in your decision making. Please read our limitations and disclaimers.
Why would financial services & insurance would be haram?
Because among other things Riba (interest) is prohibited in Islam
Assalomu alaykum
Can you tell me that is 7option halal? Because I am gonna work with it, if it is halal! Thank you in advance
As salamu alaykum
Brother I want to know the time interval of screening of stocks….coz sone have tendency to change either compliant or non compliant….
JazakAllah khair
AOA, just my 2 cents here and of course Allah swt knows best.
I have been trading equities many years via futures, futures options, equities and equity options. I used to manage assets professionally.
Late last year I began to wonder if all this is in line with Islamic principles and began to investigate, this is how I ended up here – subhanallah 🙂
It is my stance, after all my research and duas, that halal trading vehicles are only certain commodities, such grains and metals. Corn, wheat, soy meal, etc.
I can certainly explain the specifics, if anyone is interested, but ultimately for me it comes down to how much of the asset class is tied into interest (riba).
Oil futures are tricky and I am not certain about whether the mechanics are skewed enough to be halal or haram.
I want to emphasize – this is just my 2 cents.
Of course I realize that (some?) scholars have decided on the 33% principles underlying the scoring system but to me this percentage seems quite arbitrary neither rooted in Quran, hadith, nor Sunnah.
Allah swt knows best.
May Allah swt forgive all the momin and momina.
Salam.
Salam, just to add here – I think shorting financial stocks (companies taking riba) is also halal (2:276), I have never lost money shorting financial stocks – alhamdulillah rabialamin, mashAllah la quwita illabillah.
Allah swt knows best.
Salam.
Walaikum assalam wa rahmatullah,
It’s not permitted due to a number of reasons. Please check this article on trading options: https://www.muslimink.com/finance/is-options-trading-halal/
Jazak Allahu khairan for the efforts!
Waiyyakum. Thank you brother
Asselamu Alykum
In the USA, I have the option to invest in VSMAX. Is this considered halal stock?
JAK
Assalamualaikum,If the mother stock for example Microsoft is shariah compliance,how about Microsoft option.Thank you.
Walaikum assalam, Options aren’t permissible. https://www.muslimink.com/finance/is-options-trading-halal/
If the screener have notice that only 1 star was pass, and 2 star was fail, it still can consider as shariah compliance?
Yes, it means it passes one standard and not the others.
Can we do investment if only one star is there brother please reply
I have a question regarding Norwegian Airline stock, is it Halal to buy it ?
Asalam alaikum wr wb
Brother I search stock at your application like manali petrochemical Ltd it show me it is halal complainant as per Muslim Xchange
But I checked on islamicly application same showing not complaints not permissible to invest
What can I do for that
It could be because of a difference in methodology adopted. Do they give a reason why it is not compliant?
I couldn’t understand what is haram in high Cash&AR/Assets percentage. Could you please explain it in a simpler w
The Shariah standards that use this metric (like S&P) have said it must be below a certain level because cash at bank, short-term investments and account receivables often earn interest. Allah knows best
Assalamo alaikum brotherr Faraz,
First, thank you for your great effort
My question to you is, in the event that a company only passed one of the five criteria, is it permissible to buy and sell the shares of that company? What are the minimum standards for to buy?
Walaikum assalam wa rahamtullah
Yes, it should be fine to buy a company that only passes one standard. But you must look into the possibility that the company may go non compliant. If for example it has high debt and is narrowly passing one standard, then tomorrow the company may either add on more debt or if its market cap/assets come down, then it may become totally non compliant. There can be some volatility. But if the company is expected to perform better or reduce its debt, then it may become compliant in more than one standard as well. Due diligence will help understand which direction the company is heading towards.
Jazak Allah, thank you!
H, I have noticed that certain halal stock screeners consider stocks to be non shariah compliant even if they fail 3 standards, you on the other hand are deeming a stock as shariah compliant in certain cases where they have passed even a single standard. Is there a logic or reason behind this. Can you share supporting documents based on which you are doing this?
Thank you for your comment. I’m not sure which halal stock screeners approach in this manner. There are hardly one or two screeners that use multiple Shariah standards as of date. Most use just one standard like AAOIFI or S&P.
In any case, I believe you may be talking about the individual components/criteria of each standard like Debt, cash etc. If any one of this criteria is a fail, then the stock will not be compliant in the standard. Because otherwise the methodology you refer to doesn’t make any sense at all.
Regardless, our approach is to pass the stock if it passes any of the major standards while showing which ones are compliant and which aren’t. I’m not sure what is not reasonable or logical in this, or what supporting documents are needed for this?
Coal india is not in the shariyah complaint stock in other website, what i seeing here is coal india is shariyah complaint, can you please check from this website,
https://halalstock.in/is-coal-india-ltd-halal-and-shariah-compliant/
It could be due to the screening methodology they adopt. As you can see, in our screen it does not pass one standard. Most screeners use only one standard to screen stocks.
So i can trade in coal india if its fail in one standard?
So cool
hello brother,
jazakum allah khayr for your efforts. They were very useful to me. I would like to ask you about (Non-Compliant Assets) what do you mean by that?
Non-compliant assets are investments that earn interest. Thank you brother, wa iyyakum. Please consider signing up for the Paid account to support us 🙂
I will enshallah,
If it’s so What is the difference between Non-Compliant Assets and Impure Income. Thanx
Because I found some stocks that have Non-Compliant Assets
But it does not have Impure Income (incl. Interest) 0%!
Such as:
TOST – TOAST INC
ATEN – A10 NETWORKS INC
Assalamu alikom,
1- If the stock passed in one or two standards, can I invest my money in it and consider it as Halal stock ?
2- And what is the most important standard I can depend on when I choose my stock to invest ? Is it AAOIFI standard?
3- is there a purification ratio if the stock didn’t pass the five standards? And if there is a ratio, how can I calculate this ratio?
Walaikum assalam wa rahmatullah,
1. Yes you can, if you are okay with following any of the 5 Shariah standards.
2. The most important standard is the standard that you find to be the best and want to follow. Each of these 5 standards are major and globally accepted ones.
3. Purification is only for dividends. We currently do not have a purification calculator. In sha Allah, we’ll incorporate it soon.
I want to know if company is Sharia complaint and passes in 3 can we buy that stocks or not ?
Salam. I really appreciate the efforts of Muslim xChange. May Allah reward you all.
I noticed regarding the UK company BP PLC, you have listed it as Sharia compliant because the company passes in 2/5 standards. Meaning it fails more of the standards than it passes.
In another halal stock screener like Islamically, it states that BP PLC is haram because of 3 reasons:
– its total interest-bearing debt over its 3 year average market cap is greater than 33%.
– the total cash + liquid deposits over its 3 year average market cap is also over 33%
– it’s total receivables over its 3 year average market cap is over 49%
So I’m not sure who is more accurate in their assessment of the sharia-compliance of this company
Walaikum assalam wa rahmatullah
Thank you for reaching out. We use 5 different Shariah standards to screen stocks while other screeners use one Shariah standard. So the stock is failing in the standard they have adopted. As you have rightly pointed out, the stock fails three and passes two. So one of the standards it fails is probably corresponding to what the other screener uses. Hope that makes sense?
So if it fails more standards than it passes, Muslim Xchange still classes it as Shari’a-complient?
salam alaykum,
i have a question that i couldn’t get an answer for. how often do you update your data? some stocks are shariah compliant in here, however, they are not on different apps! even though you both are following the same standards. i will appreciate if you can male it clear for me.
Thanks for your effort and time
Walaikum assalam wa rahmatullah
We update once a quarter. This is how it is followed in the industry as well.
ASA Br. Faraz,
I am inquiring if ELP, Companhia Paranaense de Energia is halal. JAK
Salam. Is “Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company” shariah complied or not because it’s not showing in search engine?
Walaikum assalam wa rahmatullah,
It’s now included. Please check.
Assalamu alaikum
I was looking at this two symbols XLO and HOOK. These are biotech companies with no, or little debt.
For some reason it shows as non compliant but looks like it is mostly because data is missing.
How can we make the screening in this cases.
This has been answered in our Community
Rivian Automative Ins
assalamualaikum..Is option stock halal for example apple option…I’m new bees in stock trading,
W. Salam, no, options trading is not permissible in Islam. Watch the below video for more information.
https://youtu.be/ayZYckEgx3U
Salam Alaikum, can you please verify the results for CEI MULN and RIVN stocks? It shows Shariah compliant here, but when I checked in Musaffa and Zoya, they are listed as Shariah non-compliant. These are just 3 examples, but there are many more. I am confused which result is accurate as they are using the same standards. Thanks!
Walaikum assalam wa rahmatullah,
We screen stocks against 5 major Shariah standards. Others use one standard. So you can expect this the difference.
Selamaleykum dear Muslimxchange team,
thank you very much for your work. You enrich many people with it and make it easier to find one’s way in the investment world.
Regarding the screening criteria, I would like to ask if these are only valid for listed companies or if non-listed companies (e.g. small and medium-sized companies) can also be evaluated in this way? Especially the financial criteria would be important here, since the business model criteria are surely transferable.
Can you recommend any books or scientific papers on this subject?
Thank you for your time and hard work
With kind regards and selam
Usama Abbas
Walaikum assalam wa rahmatullah,
Thank you for your kind words brother. May Allah bless you and accept it from you.
Yes, the criteria can be applied for any public company you are looking to invest in in a stock market. You can pick a standard or compare with different standards. There are several papers on this subject. Some compare different methodologies.
For AAOIFI, you can check their standards on its website. Likewise for Dow Jones Islamic Market, they publish their methodology on their website. Similarly for FTSE Shariah and MSCI Islamic as well.
AsA,can Muslim trade in option stock?
Hello,
i think i found a mistake. how is it that ticker VGG shows’ 100%compliant and VGG holds VIG which is not 100% compliant is this wright?
thank you
What’s wrong with VIG? It’s an IT/cloud Australian company.
Hello,
im talking about ETFs on the us and Canadian market VGG i made up of VIG and the screener says VGG is compliant and VIG is not. can you please look into that
TO CLARIFY:
VGG is an ETF that holds VIG
Jazakum Allah khairan,
How do I calculate the purification ratio on capital rains, for stocks that do not give out dividends?
(would be glad if the sharia-source is provided)
According to AAOIFI, you take the impure income of a company and divided it by the total outstanding shares. Then you get the number per share. Multiply it by the number of shares you own. You only need to take out the impure income if you held the company for more than one financial period.
According to S&P, it is the percentage of of impure income, and it only needs to be taken out from your dividends as a %. Capital gains are excluded.
I appreciate your reply, thank you brother.. what about lets say I buy a stock for $100 at the start of a year
by the end of the year thee stock is worth $90. and the stock gives out no dividends..
the impure ratio shows 2%.
how and when do I purify this stock?
The impure % is actually for the S&P methodology. We have not included the AAOIFI one. In sha Allah, I’ll add it soon. Thank you for bringing this up.
For now, email us, and I’ll tell you what the number is per share. Jazaakumullahu khairan
Just did! thank you 🙂
Can get full halal companies to invest in this app?
ASA. Could you please elaborate on the impure income calculation in the app? I understand impure income should be less than 5% of total income OR impure revenue should be less than 5% of total revenue (numerator and denominator from matching source, and this is how for example Zoya app apply AAOIFI). I see in the app here, it is calculated as impure income divided by total revenue, which is very difficult to go over 5% (numerator and denominator from different sources). Example is SEA Limited, where more than 1/3rd revenue comes from financial and entertainment business and per Zoya that breaches AAOIFI standards for impure income but in this app it passes as the income from those activities is less than 5% of revenue. Please elaborate why you divide income by revenue and not income / income OR revenue / revenue. What is the reason for this interpretation.
Walaikum assalam wa rahmatullah,
Thank you for this question brother. I just checked and it was due to a technical error on our side. The impure income input was incorrectly taking another number. I have fixed this. About 10% of its revenues are from financial services and 28% from entertainment. Sorry about this.