Halal, Haram, Questionable — What Sanad's Verdicts Actually Mean

HALAL QUESTIONABLE HARAM

Sanad shows three verdict badges, but "Questionable" is doing more work than it looks like at first glance.

Halal

The company passes the business-activity screen and clears both financial-ratio thresholds cleanly, with no non-permissible income at all.

Haram

The company is excluded outright by its core business activity — conventional banking, insurance, alcohol, gambling, weapons, or (for US stocks) other conventional-financial or entertainment activity flagged by Halal Terminal's screen. No ratio is even calculated, because none would change the outcome.

Questionable — two different causes

This badge actually covers two distinct situations:

  • The company is doubtful: it's close to one of the financial-ratio thresholds — near the 30% debt line or the 5% impure-income line — without clearly failing. Read more on where the 30% threshold comes from.
  • The company is otherwise Halal but carries impure income: it clears every threshold, but has some non-zero interest income that needs to be purified from dividends.

Both show the same badge because both require you to look closer before treating the stock as a clean pass — but the underlying reason, and what you need to do about it, is different. Open the detail panel to see which one you're looking at.