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2 articles tagged bay.

Mufti Taqi Usmani Ruled Crypto Is Not Maal. The Six Roots Ask a Harder Question.

Mufti Taqi Usmani's fatwa asks whether a cryptocurrency token is maal, wealth. The deeper and older question, the one Islamic finance was actually built to ask, is whether money's own architecture, however it is built, honours or violates six roots that predate any single ruling.

M Azim Abdul Majeed · 2026-07-13

Islamic Finance · 4 min

From Gold to Paper: Riba, Fiat Currency, and the Question Nobody Wants to Ask

A root-level linguistic and juridical investigation into the prohibition of Riba in Islam, the nature of Qard, Dayn, and Bay', and whether fiat currency even qualifies as a Ribawi medium. 119 pages. Primary sources only.

M Azim Abdul Majeed · 2026-04-01