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Yasir Qadhi

Ask Shaykh YQ - Episode 07 - What is the Islamic Ruling on Cryptocurrency

Yasir Qadhi

Muslim Central

Islam, Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture

4.81.2K Ratings

🗓️ 27 August 2019

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

Shaykh Yasir Qadhi delves into the ruling on cryptocurrency. Cryptocurrency is based on decentralized commodities to be a type of currency not backed by banks and the government. The Fiqh Council issued a fatwa that cryptocurrency is not prohibited and hence, it is halal unless proven otherwise.

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What is the Islamic ruling on crypto currencies?

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What is the Islamic ruling on?

0:11.0

Cryptocurencies? rolling on So, the rhe,

0:23.0

in the hilah him,

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that's no,

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I'm gonna agree, pla, to Allah thikriya, pothum la t'a'a'a'a'a'u'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a So, uh, crypto currencies are a new form of decentralized commodities and the point of

0:40.6

crypto currencies is to be a type of currency that is not backed by a government.

0:48.0

It's not backed by a known institution. It's not backed by the banks.

0:52.0

And it is created by groups of people that generally speaking are not too sympathetic to banks and governments

0:58.9

And of course the first and most famous cryptocurrency is created by the Japanese Satoshi or it's obviously not an actual name it's his

1:06.7

Studonym and he created of course the famous Bitcoin and from the success of Bitcoin

1:15.8

There were some people who became multi-millionaires by investing a thousand dollars, a thousand dollars, and they became, you know, multi-millionaires after ten years.

1:21.8

So when Bitcoin went up so the the Bitcoin is the most

1:26.0

famous example of cryptocurrency. It opened the door for not hundreds, thousands of

1:31.3

different crypto currencies. So last year the Fikk thousands of different cryptocurrency.

1:33.0

So last year the Fich Council of North America

1:37.4

dedicated a significant amount of time to talk about

1:40.8

crypto currencies in our meeting, in our our annual meeting and we went over this

1:44.8

issue in a lot of detail and by unanimous consensus we issued a fatwa to be more precise we will be issuing a fatwa within a week or two, but the

1:55.2

fatwa has been finalized.

1:56.5

I have drafted the initial draft is just going to be circular amongst other members and

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