Research, not commentary.
Markets, fiqh, and the discipline between them.
Written by the team that trades, screens, and teaches — trends, halal crypto analysis, and trading psychology from the ShariaQuant desk.
Investing or Trading? Which One You Are Doing
Ask someone whether they are investing or trading and most will say "a bit of both," which usually means neither deliberately. That confusion costs more money...
When Your Currency Is Failing: A Muslim's Options
Most writing about halal crypto assumes the reader is a Western Muslim with savings, wondering whether an interesting asset class is permissible. That is not w...
Building a Strong Halal Crypto Portfolio
A halal portfolio is not a list of permissible assets. That is a shopping list, and you can build a genuinely dangerous portfolio entirely out of things that pa...
Do You Owe Zakat on an Unrealised Gain?
You bought at $12,000. It is worth $48,000. You have not sold anything, you have no cash from it, and your zakat date is next week. Yes, you owe zakat on the $...
The Exchanges Publishing Halal Guides Sell Leverage
Type "is crypto halal" into Google and look at who wrote the answers. A large share of the first page belongs to cryptocurrency exchanges. MEXC has a piece on...
Zakat on Staked, Locked and Airdropped Tokens
The basic rule is straightforward: 2.5% of market value on your zakat date, and [there is a piece covering the mechanics](/articles/how-to-calculate-zakat-on-cr...
How to Calculate Zakat on Crypto
Zakat on crypto is simpler than most Muslims expect, and the reason people find it confusing is that they start from the wrong idea of what zakat is. Zakat al-...
How to Judge a Halal Coin List Before Trusting It
There are at least a dozen halal crypto lists on the internet and they contradict each other. Coins that are permissible on one are prohibited on another, and a...
Dollar-Cost Averaging and the Muslim Investor
DCA fits spot-only constraints better than it fits leveraged trading, and a Shariah-certified exchange account already permits the bot. Also where it is oversold.
How Much to Start With, and How to Split It
Four gates come before any amount, and none of them is about the market. Then the harder question: with a small sum, fewer assets is the correct answer.
Best Halal Crypto Screeners in 2026, Compared
Eight platforms screen crypto for Shariah compliance and they disagree with each other. We are one of them, so read this with the discount that deserves.
The Halal Crypto Verdicts That Surprised Us
A screening framework that only ever confirms what you already assumed is not doing anything. You could get the same output from vibes. The test of a methodolo...
Are Tokenized Stocks Halal? What You Actually Own
Two tokens on our list track the same company. One is permissible. The other is not. MSTRX and STRCX both point at MicroStrategy. Both are issued by the same c...