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Is Bitcoin Halal? Documented Rulings by Body

Recorded scholarly positions on Bitcoin differ: the register below holds 4 ruling(s) spanning 4 stance(s), each quoted verbatim with its year and scope.

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3 stances
Quick answer · the honest one

Opinions differ. Recognised scholars have reached opposite conclusions about Bitcoin, and both conclusions rest on classical reasoning rather than on a gap in it.

No single verdictSpot and leverage split
Key takeaways
Bitcoin carries no agreed ruling. Different bodies have answered the same question in opposite directions, and this page picks neither.
Owning bitcoin and trading a leveraged contract on its price are two questions. A ruling on the first says nothing about the second — why they separate →
Every ruling on this page is quoted with its body, year and scope as recorded. No fatwa is paraphrased, summarised or generated here.
On this page
Quick answerVerdict: opinions differWhere the positions splitThe rulings recordSpot vs leverage
Verdict · three stances on file, none of them ours

The rulings do not agree

Permitted
Malaysia Securities Commission Shariah Advisory Council2020scope · spot
Not permitted
Indonesia MUI (Majelis Ulama Indonesia)2021scope · general
Conditional or withheld
UAE Fatwa Council2024scope · general

All three stances are held by qualified scholars, so the honest verdict is that opinions differ. Canborsa has no standing to rank them and does not. A reader who needs a ruling for their own situation should take it from the authority they follow, with the facts of that situation in front of them.

NO BINARY VERDICTNO RANKING OF SCHOLARS3 RULINGS ON FILE
FIQH
The reasoning · conditions as recorded

Where the positions split

Each condition below is the ruling body's own, as recorded, with the body named, the year attached and the scope the ruling covers.

Condition · as recorded
Digital currency without underlying assets is classified as urudh, permissible for trading as it lacks prohibited elements
Malaysia Securities Commission Shariah Advisory Council2020scope · spot
Condition · as recorded
As currency. The fatwa further states that using cryptocurrency as currency is forbidden because it contains gharar (uncertainty), dharar (harm), and violates Indonesian law
Indonesia MUI (Majelis Ulama Indonesia)2021scope · general
Condition · as recorded
Position is tawaquf (state of suspension). Council indicates position could change if government formally recognizes cryptocurrency
UAE Fatwa Council2024scope · general
Editorial rules on this page
A ruling is quoted in its own words, with the issuing body named in the text and the year attached.
Nothing is paraphrased into a position, and no ruling is inferred from a scholar's general views.
Where an asset has no sourced position, the page is not published at all.
Canborsa operates a perpetuals venue and takes no position on the ruling.
The record · body · year · position · basis

The rulings record

One row per collected ruling — the body named, the year attached, the position and its scope as recorded.

Body
Position
Year
Scope
Basis
Malaysia Securities Commission Shariah Advisory Council
Permitted
2020
spot
“Digital currency in this form is categorized as 'urudh and it is not a currency from Shariah perspective... [permissible for trading]”
Indonesia MUI (Majelis Ulama Indonesia)
Not permitted
2021
general
“Penggunaan cryptocurrency sebagai mata uang hukumnya haram”
UAE Fatwa Council
Conditional or withheld
2024
general
“Our current position is 'tawaquf'; we can't say it is halal or haram, but we say it is better not to engage in it”
3 rulings
The distinction this page will not blur

Holding bitcoin and trading it on margin are two questions

A ruling that permits owning bitcoin settles the question of ownership. It says nothing about a leveraged derivative on the price of bitcoin, because a derivative introduces features that classical fiqh examines on their own terms: borrowed exposure, a periodic payment between counterparties, and a contract that never delivers the underlying to anyone.

Those features are argued separately in the literature. Leverage raises the question of a loan and of what is paid for it. The funding payment exchanged between longs and shorts every 1h raises its own question about what that payment is compensation for. The absence of delivery raises the question of selling what one does not possess. Each of those has its own record, and none of them is answered by a ruling about bitcoin itself.

What Canborsa actually lists

Every market on Canborsa is a perpetual — a leveraged contract on a price, with no ownership of the underlying at any point. A reader who is here for the spot question is reading about a different instrument than the one this venue offers, and we would rather say that plainly than let the page imply otherwise.

Canborsa makes no claim of Sharia compliance for any market it lists, and offers no screened or certified account. Nothing on this page is a religious ruling.

Bitcoin
A perpetual, in plain terms
What the contract is, before any ruling
Ownership of the underlyingnone
Delivery at any pointnone
Leverage available—
Funding intervalevery 1h
Expirynone
Canborsa fees0.07% / SIDE

A ruling about bitcoin itself is not a ruling about this contract.

What a perpetual is →Funding rate →

Frequently asked questions

Is Bitcoin halal?›

Positions differ between ruling bodies; the record quotes each verbatim without issuing a single verdict.

Is leveraged trading treated the same as spot?›

No — several bodies rule on margin and futures separately from spot ownership.

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