Zakir Naik – Having Discovered Only Lately that the Shares I Bought from a Company are Haraam what shall i do

Zakir Naik
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A student from India has invested in a company's shares three months ago, but their stock became focus on the company's share price. The student is advised to sell the shares immediately if they want to continue investing in sharia compliant shares. The best course of action is to invest in sharia compliant shares, but there are two types of sharia compliant shares, either sharia board or sharia
the core activity is sharia compliant.
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Assalamualaikum.

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Waalaikumussalam.

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My name is Sadiq.

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I am a student from Kolkata, India.

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My question is, I invested money on a

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halal company's shares three months earlier, but recently

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I checked that the company has become haram

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because interest bearing debt to total assets has

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exceeded to 43.75% due to which

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the stock has become haram, but previously the

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stock was halal.

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What should I do?

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The question posed by brother Sadiq that he

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invested in halal shares and maybe he has

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knowledge about how to invest in stock which

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are sharia compliant.

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And when he invested, and when he bought

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these shares three months earlier, these shares were

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halal.

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But now when he checked up, he came

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to know that the interest bearing ratio or

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the debt ratio has increased to more than

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43.75%. So now it's become haram.

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What should he do?

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First, if you have heard my answers on

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how do you come to know whether the

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stocks you are purchasing of a particular company

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is sharia compliant or not, and there are

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five categories.

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The first is that the core activity should

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be halal and then you should see to

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it that they are not involved in any

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interest bearing activity as a company which is

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giving loan on interest, etc.

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Then the cash and the debt ratio should

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be less and any haram activity should be

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less than 5%.

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These were discussed in detail.

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So the brother has checked and he realized

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after three months that debt ratio has increased

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to more than 43% and that makes

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the share haram.

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What should he do?

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He should immediately sell the share.

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Sell the share and invest in a halal

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share.

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But while investing, see to it that there

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are two types of sharia compliant.

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One is that the company itself has a

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sharia board and it is sharia compliant by

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nature.

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By nature means it has a board.

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So investing in sharia compliant shares which has

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a sharia board is the best.

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And Malaysia, where I live, there are many

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sharia compliant shares and it is there in

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the stock itself.

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It mentions sharia compliant, halal, okay, not sharia

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compliant.

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In India, there are very few which are

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basically which have a sharia board, etc., hardly

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any.

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But even if it doesn't have a sharia

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board, it can be sharia compliant by nature

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because it may not be a debt company,

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it may not be taking loans, the core

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activity may not be haram, it may be

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dealing with maybe pharmaceuticals.

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So by nature it can be.

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So some companies, by nature, if they don't

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have a sharia board also, it can remain

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halal.

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But some company can keep on changing like

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the one you said.

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Invest in a company and that company has

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got involved into debt, you know, so in

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this you have to keep on monitoring.

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But the best is to invest in shares

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which has, invest in companies which has a

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sharia board.

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The second best would be, by nature it

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is sharia compliant.

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You know that the company will not involve

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in taking loans from the bank, and by

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nature it is such a company, it is

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a strong company, it's a big company, and

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it's involved in products which are halal.

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And then the third would be the company

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which may keep on changing.

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So it is preferable to avoid investing in

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companies which can change because you have to

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keep on monitoring, and then if it's haram

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you'll have to sell it.

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So why let you invest even for a

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small period, whether it be a month or

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whether it be a week.

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So best is to involve in companies which

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have a sharia board, as I mentioned.

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Second best is by nature if it's sharia

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compliant.

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But now the solution for this, see to

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it that you sell it immediately, if you

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want to continue investing in sharia compliant shares,

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see to it that you invest in a

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company which has a sharia board, or by

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nature it is sharia compliant.

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Hope that answers the question.

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