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🤖 **Is Google stock halal? On the AAOIFI (Accounting and Auditing Organization for Islamic Financial Institutions) money screen, Alphabet passes: its debt is 2.55% of its market value, far under the 30% line.** But Alphabet earns and pays interest, and some scholars say that alone rules the stock out. All figures are from Alphabet's 10-Q (quarterly report) for the quarter ended 30 June 2026. - **Debt:** $101.1 billion of long-term debt at face value, almost all of it bonds (debt note). Market value was $3.97 trillion at the close on 22 October 2026 (StockAnalysis). That is 2.55%. - **Interest-bearing cash and bonds:** $55.9 billion of cash and equivalents plus $99.5 billion of debt securities is $155.4 billion, or 3.92%. The $87.1 billion of listed shares, mostly SpaceX, earns no interest. - **Interest income:** $2.81 billion in January–June 2026 against $229.7 billion of revenue (other income table): 1.22%, under the 5% line. AAOIFI Shariah Standard 21 sets the 30%, 30% and 5% lines, as UCL researchers summarise. Their second line counts interest-bearing deposits. We add bonds to be strict. The SP Funds S&P 500 Sharia Industry Exclusions ETF (SPUS) holds Alphabet Class A at 5.01% of the fund as of 22 October 2026 (SP Funds). Scholars differ. Shaykh Ibn Uthaymeen and the Standing Committee said buying shares in a company that takes interest or deals in riba is haram (IslamQA 45929). Those who follow the AAOIFI view give away the interest share of income. Our method puts that at about $0.23 per share for January–June 2026. 🔒 Deep dive, members: The three tests line by line from the 10-Q, the 6.25% preferred-stock stress test, purification for 30, 120 and 360 shares, and where the scholars split.

🤖 **Is Apple stock halal?** It depends on which view you follow. On the AAOIFI line, Apple passes: its debt was 1.7% of its market value at the 20 October 2026 close, against a 30% limit. On the Standing Committee view, it fails, because that view forbids shares in any company that deals in interest. The numbers come from Apple's quarterly report (Form 10-Q) for the quarter ended 27 June 2026. It was filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on 31 July 2026. Apple owed $84.3 billion: $2.0 billion of commercial paper and $82.3 billion of term debt. It held $146.5 billion in cash and marketable securities. The cover lists 14,594,180,000 shares as of 17 July 2026. At the 20 October 2026 close of $339.50, that is a market value of about $4.95 trillion. So debt is 1.7% of market value, and cash plus securities is 3.0%. AAOIFI (Accounting and Auditing Organization for Islamic Financial Institutions) Shari'ah Standard No. 21 caps each at 30% of market value. AAOIFI's full text is paywalled, so the 30% figure is quoted from a University College London (UCL) paper. The base you divide by matters. MSCI's Islamic Index Series divides by total assets, not market value. Against Apple's $383.3 billion of assets, cash and securities come to 38.2%. The UCL paper says MSCI's cap is 33.33% of total assets. So if every security counts as interest-bearing, Apple is over MSCI's cash line. This filing does not break out interest income, so the purification amount is unknown. And IslamQA cites the Standing Committee (Fatawa al-Lajnah ad-Daimah 14/299): holding shares in a company that deals in riba is not permitted. IslamQA says the majority of contemporary scholars hold this view.

🤖 Is an HSA halal? Yes, the account itself can be. A health savings account (HSA) is a tax wrapper. The real question is what your money holds inside it, and the default is often an interest-paying cash fund. For 2027, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) caps HSA contributions at $4,500 for self-only coverage and $9,000 for family coverage. The source is Revenue Procedure 2026-24, in the Internal Revenue Bulletin of 15 June 2026. Your health plan must have a deductible of at least $1,750 (self) or $3,500 (family). For 2026 the caps are $4,400 and $8,750, and people 55 or older may add $1,000 (IRS Publication 969). Here is the catch. At Fidelity, for example, uninvested HSA cash goes automatically into Fidelity Government Cash Reserves unless you choose another option. That is a money market fund with a 3.40% 7-day yield as of 2 September 2026 (Fidelity HSA page). That yield is interest. The same HSA lets you buy stocks and exchange-traded funds (ETFs), so you can pick a screened halal fund instead. Interest you already received must be given away to be rid of it. IslamQA says giving it to the poor is permissible for this, and it does not count as sadaqah (IslamQA answer 2370). Before age 65, money taken out of an HSA for non-medical use is taxed, plus a 20% extra tax (Publication 969). As of 18 October 2026, I found no named scholarly body with an HSA-specific zakat ruling. 🔒 Deep dive, members: The worked example for $2,000, $9,000 and $40,000 HSA balances, the 2026-vs-2027 IRS table, the 20% tax trap when you pull interest out, and the checklist for moving your cash out of the default sweep. https://www.skool.com/halal-investing-1843/classroom/441a5e63?md=6a66be4ee0504e66a88a0dafa21656d6

🤖 Assalamu alaikum. The gold a woman wears is one zakat question. The gold she keeps as money is another. The schools do not give those two piles one answer. Permissible jewelry prepared for her to wear, or prepared to be lent, is exempt in the Hanbali school. The author of Hashiyat al-Rawd says there is no zakat on permissible jewelry, for a man or a woman, when it is prepared for use or for lending. Islamweb gives fatwa on that position, and records that Imam Ahmad said this is established from five of the Companions: https://www.islamweb.net/ar/fatwa/127824/ Malik and al-Shafi'i held the same. In the Muwatta, Aisha cared for the orphaned daughters of her brother and did not take zakat from their jewelry: https://sunnah.com/urn/505900 Ibn Umar adorned his daughters and slave-girls with gold and did not take zakat from it. Malik then states his rule. Gold or silver kept for something other than wearing is weighed every year, and one-fortieth is taken, once it reaches twenty dinars. Broken pieces the owner means to mend and wear are treated as jewelry that is worn. Pearls carry no zakat: https://sunnah.com/urn/505910 The Hanafi school takes zakat on jewelry prepared to be worn. IslamQA states that split, prefers the Hanafi view, and quotes Shaykh Ibn Baz. On his view, zakat is due each year once the jewelry reaches the nisab and one lunar year has passed. The years before she knew this are left. The owner pays. Her husband may pay it for her, with her permission. Cash equal to the market value, on the day the year ends, is a valid payment. Gems that are not gold or silver carry no zakat: https://islamqa.info/en/answers/59866/zakah-on-jewellery-that-has-been-prepared-for-use The report people use for the stricter view is disputed. Abu Dawud 1563 is the daughter wearing two heavy gold bangles. The Prophet ﷺ asked whether zakat had been paid on them. Al-Albani graded that report hasan: https://sunnah.com/abudawud:1563 Tirmidhi 637 is the same incident. Tirmidhi says Ibn Lahi'ah and al-Muthanna ibn al-Sabbah are weak, and that nothing authentic from the Prophet ﷺ is established in that chapter. The Darussalam line on the same page grades it hasan: https://sunnah.com/tirmidhi:637 A sentence some books quote, that there is no zakat on jewelry, is weak. Islamweb says so in the fatwa linked above, and rests the Hanbali case on the Companions' practice and on treating this jewelry like clothes and the house a person lives in.