Is Bitcoin Halal? The 2026 Shariah Verdict for Canadian Muslim Investors
Quick Answer
Probably yes — most contemporary scholars treat spot Bitcoin, held directly with no leverage and no interest-bearing wrapper, as permissible to own and trade, though the question is genuinely contested and you should confirm with a scholar you trust before treating it as settled. The critical mechanical point: Bitcoin is NOT a company, so the AAOIFI financial-ratio screen (interest-bearing debt under 30% of market cap, cash-plus-interest under 30%, impermissible income under 5%) does not apply the way it does to a stock or an ETF like XEQT — there is no balance sheet, no debt, and no revenue to measure. The real Shariah questions are whether Bitcoin counts as property (the majority say yes), and whether the way you hold it involves riba, gharar, or maysir. Spot ownership is defensible; crypto lending, staking-for-yield, margin, and futures are not. If you want screened exposure to growth assets instead, purpose-built Shariah ETFs like HLAL (0.49% MER), SPUS (0.45% MER), or Wealthsimple's halal portfolio (~0.4-0.5% all-in) are the compliant route — and Bitcoin, if you hold it at all, should be sized as the speculative position it is.
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Why the Usual Halal-ETF Screen Does Not Work on Bitcoin
If you have read our breakdowns of broad-market ETFs, you know the drill: run the AAOIFI Shari'ah Standard 21 screen, check the three financial ratios, name the conventional banks dragging the fund offside, and call it. That entire process assumes the asset is a company — or a basket of companies — with a balance sheet and an income statement. Bitcoin is neither.
There is no Bitcoin Inc. There is no corporate treasury holding interest-bearing cash, no debt facility, no quarterly revenue, and no dividend. The protocol is open-source software running on a decentralized network of computers. So when you try to apply the AAOIFI ratios, every input comes back empty:
| AAOIFI Standard 21 ratio | Threshold | Bitcoin status |
|---|---|---|
| Interest-bearing debt ÷ market cap | ≤ 30% | N/A — no issuer, no debt to measure |
| Cash + interest-bearing securities ÷ market cap | ≤ 30% | N/A — no corporate treasury |
| Impermissible income ÷ total income | ≤ 5% | N/A — Bitcoin earns no income |
This is the part most people get wrong. Plenty of "is Bitcoin halal" articles confidently run the corporate ratios and produce a pass/fail number. That number is meaningless, because the screen was built for equities. The honest analysis throws out the ratio screen and asks the questions that actually apply to a non-corporate digital asset.
The Three Questions That Actually Decide It
Stripped of the equity-screen machinery, the Shariah analysis of Bitcoin comes down to three live questions. Two are about the asset itself; one is about how you hold it.
1. Is Bitcoin property (māl) at all?
For something to be ownable and tradeable under Shariah, it generally needs to qualify as māl — recognized property with value. The permissibility camp argues Bitcoin clears this bar: it is scarce (capped at 21 million coins), it is recognized as valuable by a large market, it can be possessed and transferred, and customary recognition (urf) increasingly treats it as property. The prohibition camp counters that Bitcoin has no intrinsic value, is not backed by a sovereign or a commodity, and is therefore not sound māl. This is the philosophical core of the disagreement, and reasonable scholars land on opposite sides.
2. Is there excessive gharar (uncertainty)?
Gharar is the strongest argument the prohibition side makes. Bitcoin is volatile — a 50%+ drawdown in a single year has happened more than once, and that instability feeds the "it's too uncertain to be a sound store of value" objection. But the permissibility side draws a careful distinction: prohibited gharar concerns uncertainty in the contract itself — not knowing what you are buying, at what price, or whether it will be delivered. When you buy Bitcoin spot, you know precisely what you are getting and what you are paying. Price volatility after purchase is investment risk, which is present in every halal equity too. Volatility is not the same as the contractual gharar the prohibition is aimed at.
3. Does the way you hold it involve riba or maysir?
This is the question you control, and it is where most Muslim investors actually go wrong. Owning Bitcoin spot is one thing; the products built on top of it are another. The table below sorts the common structures.
| How you hold it | Shariah issue | Verdict |
|---|---|---|
| Spot Bitcoin, owned outright, held long-term | None inherent (asset-ownership question only) | Defensible (majority view) |
| Spot Bitcoin ETF (holds coins, no lending) | Same as spot — wrapper only | Defensible (majority view) |
| Crypto "earn" / lending accounts | Fixed yield = riba (interest) | Not permissible |
| Staking-for-yield products | Often structured as interest; contested | Avoid unless individually screened |
| Margin / leveraged trading | Borrowing at interest = riba | Not permissible |
| Perpetual futures, options, leveraged tokens | Speculative wager = maysir (gambling) | Not permissible |
The verdict, stated plainly: spot Bitcoin held directly with no leverage and no interest-bearing wrapper has a credible majority basis for permissibility. The disqualifiers are not the coin — they are the products built around it. Because the underlying question (is Bitcoin sound property?) remains contested, this is not a settled ruling, and you should confirm with a scholar you trust. This is Sharia-compliance mechanics, not theology, and it is YMYL — we flag the contested points rather than paper over them.
Where the Scholars Actually Split
It would be dishonest to present a clean verdict here, because there isn't one. The contemporary majority — including the Shariah Review Bureau and a number of widely-followed scholars — treats spot Bitcoin as permissible property, with the caveats above. A significant minority, including rulings issued in some jurisdictions, prohibits it on the grounds that it lacks intrinsic backing and that its volatility constitutes excessive gharar.
What both camps agree on is more useful than where they disagree. No mainstream scholar on either side endorses leveraged crypto trading, interest-bearing crypto lending, or treating Bitcoin as a get-rich-quick instrument. The disagreement is narrow — it is about whether spot ownership of the bare asset is permissible — and even the permissibility camp treats it as a high-risk, speculative holding, not a core portfolio building block.
If You Want Screened Growth Exposure Instead: The Compliant Alternatives
Some Muslim investors look at the contested status, the volatility, and the absence of a clean ruling and decide the prudent move is to skip Bitcoin entirely and put their growth allocation into something that is both clearly screened and far less likely to drop 50% in a year. If that's you, the purpose-built Shariah ETF market in Canada gives you screened equity exposure without the ambiguity.
| Option | Coverage | MER / all-in cost | Annual cost on $200K |
|---|---|---|---|
| HLAL (Wahed FTSE USA Shariah) | US equity, Shariah-screened | 0.49% | $980 |
| SPUS (SP Funds S&P 500 Shariah) | US large-cap, Shariah-screened | 0.45% | $900 |
| Wealthsimple Halal (WSRI) | Global equity, Shariah-screened | ~0.4-0.5% | ~$800-$1,000 |
These funds are screened equities, not crypto — so they carry the ordinary risk of a stock portfolio rather than Bitcoin's extreme volatility, and their compliance is unambiguous because the screen is applied to real companies with real balance sheets. For the full ranked breakdown of every Shariah-compliant fund available to Canadian investors, see our guide to the best halal ETFs in Canada.
How to Hold Bitcoin Compliantly — If You Hold It at All
If, after confirming with a scholar you trust, you decide spot Bitcoin is acceptable for you, the structure matters as much as the decision:
- Buy spot, own the coins. Use an exchange or a spot ETF that actually holds Bitcoin — not a futures-based product. Self-custody or a reputable custodian; the point is that you own the asset, not a derivative bet on it.
- No leverage, ever. No margin, no perpetual futures, no leveraged tokens. The moment you borrow to amplify the position, you have introduced riba and likely maysir, and you have abandoned the entire permissibility argument.
- No yield products. Skip "earn" accounts, crypto lending, and staking-for-yield. A fixed return on a deposited coin is interest dressed in new clothing.
- Size it as speculation. Even the scholars who permit Bitcoin treat it as a high-risk holding. A position you could lose half of overnight does not belong as a core allocation in a plan you are relying on for retirement.
- Wrapper is tax, not Shariah. Holding a spot Bitcoin ETF in your TFSA or RRSP changes the tax treatment, not the Shariah analysis. The TFSA shelters the gain tax-free; the RRSP defers it. Neither makes a non-compliant structure compliant.
Zakat on Bitcoin: 2.5% on the Due-Date Value
If you hold Bitcoin as a tradeable asset, the majority view is that zakat applies the way it does to other investment assets: 2.5% annually on the Canadian-dollar market value, once your total zakatable wealth clears nisab and a lunar year has passed.
The mechanics are simple even if the volatility is annoying. On your zakat due date, take the CAD market value of your Bitcoin, add it to your other zakatable assets, and if the combined total exceeds nisab, pay 2.5% of the Bitcoin's value. So $40,000 of Bitcoin generates $1,000 of zakat. The rule keys off the value on the due date, not the yearly average — so a spike or a crash on that date moves the number. Pay zakat in cash from outside the position; you do not have to sell the coins to settle it.
The Honest Bottom Line
Bitcoin does not fail the halal screen the way XEQT does, because the thing that disqualifies XEQT — conventional banks earning interest inside the fund — does not exist inside Bitcoin. There is no bank, no debt, no interest-bearing treasury. The AAOIFI ratio screen simply has nothing to measure.
What remains is a genuinely contested question about whether Bitcoin is sound property, and a much clearer set of rules about how you may hold it. Spot ownership, no leverage, no interest-bearing yield: that is the defensible structure, and it has a credible majority basis. Crypto lending, margin, futures, and staking-for-yield are out, and there is little scholarly dispute about that. Because the underlying property question stays unsettled and this is YMYL territory, treat any verdict as provisional — confirm with a scholar you trust, and if the ambiguity bothers you, the screened halal ETFs above give you growth exposure with none of the doubt.
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Disclaimer: This article applies the AAOIFI Shariah Standard No. 21 screening methodology to publicly reported fund holdings. Shariah-compliance rulings involve scholarly interpretation — for a binding ruling on your specific situation, consult a qualified Islamic finance scholar. Fund holdings and financial ratios change quarterly; verify current data via Musaffa or Zoya before acting. This is not a fatwa.
Key Takeaways
- 1Bitcoin is not a company, so the AAOIFI corporate ratio screen (debt under 30%, cash-plus-interest under 30%, impermissible income under 5%) does not apply — there is no balance sheet to measure. Applying a stock screen to Bitcoin is the most common error in halal-crypto content
- 2The real Shariah questions are whether Bitcoin is property (the majority say yes) and whether your method of holding it involves riba, gharar, or maysir — spot ownership held long-term is the defensible position
- 3This is genuinely contested — credentialed scholars sit on both sides. The contemporary majority leans permissible for spot; a significant minority prohibits on intrinsic-value and gharar grounds. Confirm with a scholar you trust before treating it as settled
- 4Crypto lending, 'earn' accounts, staking-for-yield, margin trading, and futures are NOT permissible — they introduce riba (interest) or maysir (gambling) regardless of whether the underlying coin is acceptable
- 5Zakat applies at 2.5% of CAD market value on your due date if you hold Bitcoin as a tradeable asset above nisab; size it as the speculative holding it is, not as a core allocation
Frequently Asked Questions
Q:Why can't you just run the AAOIFI 30% debt screen on Bitcoin like you do for a stock?
A:Because the AAOIFI financial-ratio screen measures things Bitcoin does not have. The three ratios in AAOIFI Shari'ah Standard 21 are interest-bearing debt divided by market cap, cash plus interest-bearing securities divided by market cap, and impermissible income divided by total income. Every one of those is a line item from a company's balance sheet or income statement. Bitcoin has no balance sheet. It is not a company, it has no debt, it earns no revenue, it pays no dividend, and it holds no interest-bearing cash on a corporate treasury. The protocol is software running on a decentralized network. So the ratio screen returns nothing meaningful — there is no debt to be 30% of anything, and no impermissible income to be 5% of anything. This is the single most common error in 'is Bitcoin halal' content: applying a corporate-stock screen to an asset that is not a corporate stock. The relevant Shariah questions for Bitcoin are different — whether it qualifies as property (māl), whether it carries intrinsic or recognized value, and whether the way you trade or earn it involves riba (interest), gharar (excessive uncertainty), or maysir (gambling).
Q:So is Bitcoin halal or haram in 2026?
A:The honest answer is that there is no single binding ruling — this is a genuinely contested question and you will find credentialed scholars on both sides. The contemporary majority position, including bodies like the Shariah Review Bureau and a number of well-known scholars, treats Bitcoin as permissible to own and trade as property, provided you avoid the impermissible structures around it (interest-bearing crypto lending, leveraged margin trading, futures speculation, and staking products that are structured as interest). A significant minority — including rulings issued in some jurisdictions — hold that Bitcoin fails because it lacks intrinsic value, is not backed by a sovereign, and is too volatile to be a sound store of value, which they classify as excessive gharar. LifeMoney's position is that spot Bitcoin held directly, with no leverage and no interest-bearing wrapper, has a credible majority basis for permissibility — but because the matter is contested and YMYL, you should confirm with a scholar you trust before treating it as settled, and you should size the position as the speculative holding it is.
Q:Does buying Bitcoin involve riba, gharar, or maysir?
A:Spot purchase of Bitcoin itself does not involve riba — you are buying an asset outright, not lending or borrowing at interest. The riba problem appears the moment you wrap Bitcoin in an interest-bearing product: crypto lending platforms that pay you a fixed yield, 'earn' accounts, and most staking-as-a-service offerings are structured as interest and are not permissible. Gharar (excessive uncertainty) is the strongest argument the prohibition camp makes — Bitcoin's volatility is real, and a 50%+ drawdown in a year is not unusual. But volatility alone is not the same as the prohibited gharar of an unknowable contract; you know exactly what you are buying and at what price. Maysir (gambling) is the real line to watch: day-trading on leverage, perpetual futures, and options are speculation structured like a wager and cross into maysir. The distinction that matters is owning Bitcoin as a long-term asset (defensible) versus gambling on its price with borrowed money (not defensible).
Q:Is a Bitcoin ETF like the ones on the TSX halal?
A:A spot Bitcoin ETF that simply holds Bitcoin and tracks its price does not introduce a corporate-balance-sheet problem the way an equity ETF like XEQT does, because the underlying asset is Bitcoin, not a basket of conventional banks. So the equity-ETF screening logic does not transfer. The questions are instead (1) does the ETF actually hold spot Bitcoin or does it use futures and derivatives — futures-based crypto ETFs introduce maysir and gharar concerns and are harder to justify; and (2) does the fund engage in lending out its holdings for yield, which would introduce riba. A plain spot-Bitcoin ETF that holds the coins and does not lend them is, for scholars who accept Bitcoin as property, broadly defensible. A futures-based or yield-generating crypto fund is not. Read the fund's prospectus before assuming. Note also that holding the ETF inside an RRSP or TFSA does not change the Shariah analysis — the wrapper is a tax structure, not a Shariah structure.
Q:How do I pay zakat on Bitcoin?
A:If you accept Bitcoin as property, the majority view is that zakat applies to it the same way it applies to other tradeable assets you hold for investment: 2.5% annually on the market value once your total zakatable wealth is above the nisab threshold and a lunar year has passed. The practical mechanics: take the Canadian-dollar market value of your Bitcoin on your zakat due date, add it to your other zakatable assets (cash, halal stocks held for trade, gold), and if the combined total exceeds nisab, pay 2.5% of the Bitcoin's value. So $40,000 of Bitcoin generates $1,000 of zakat in that year. The volatility creates a real practical wrinkle — the value on your zakat date may be far above or below where it sat for most of the year — but the rule is based on the value on the due date, not the average. Pay zakat in cash from outside the position; you do not need to sell Bitcoin to pay it, but you do need to value it in CAD on the due date.
Q:What about Ethereum, staking, and altcoins — same answer?
A:Not automatically. Ethereum-the-asset faces a similar property-and-volatility analysis to Bitcoin, and many scholars who permit Bitcoin extend the same reasoning to Ether held spot. But staking is where it diverges sharply: proof-of-stake rewards are treated by some scholars as a form of return on a locked deposit that resembles interest, and by others as a legitimate fee for providing network validation services — this is unsettled and you should not assume staking yield is permissible. Altcoins are a much harder case: many have no clear use, are pre-mined and controlled by a small group, or are explicitly tied to impermissible activities (gambling protocols, lending protocols paying interest). A coin whose entire purpose is to power an interest-based lending platform or an online casino fails on business-activity grounds even if you only hold the token. Screen each coin on what the project actually does, not on the fact that it is 'crypto.'
Q:Is leveraged or margin crypto trading ever halal?
A:No, and this is one of the clearer points in an otherwise contested area. Margin trading means borrowing money — almost always at interest — to amplify your position, which is riba directly. Perpetual futures, options, and leveraged tokens are speculative contracts whose payoff is structured like a wager on price direction, which is maysir (gambling). Even setting aside the riba on the borrowed funds, the leverage itself converts ownership of an asset into a bet on short-term price movement. The permissibility case for Bitcoin rests entirely on treating it as a real asset you own outright and hold. The moment you add leverage, you have left that argument behind. If you want exposure to Bitcoin within a Shariah-compliant framework, the only defensible route is spot — buy the coin (or a spot ETF), own it, hold it, and do not borrow against it.
Q:If broad-market ETFs like XEQT fail the halal screen, why might Bitcoin pass when it's riskier?
A:Because the two assets fail or pass for completely different reasons, and risk is not the screening criterion. XEQT fails because it structurally holds conventional banks and insurers whose core business is interest-based lending — that is a business-activity failure baked into the asset, and no amount of holding it differently changes the fact that you own a slice of riba-based finance. Bitcoin has no such underlying business; there is no bank inside Bitcoin earning interest. So the thing that disqualifies XEQT simply does not exist in Bitcoin. Shariah screening is about the source and structure of the return, not about volatility or risk of loss — a halal investment can lose money, and a haram one can be very safe. Bitcoin's risk is a sizing-and-suitability question for your financial plan, not a Shariah-compliance question. They are separate tests, and conflating 'risky' with 'haram' is a common mistake.
Question: Why can't you just run the AAOIFI 30% debt screen on Bitcoin like you do for a stock?
Answer: Because the AAOIFI financial-ratio screen measures things Bitcoin does not have. The three ratios in AAOIFI Shari'ah Standard 21 are interest-bearing debt divided by market cap, cash plus interest-bearing securities divided by market cap, and impermissible income divided by total income. Every one of those is a line item from a company's balance sheet or income statement. Bitcoin has no balance sheet. It is not a company, it has no debt, it earns no revenue, it pays no dividend, and it holds no interest-bearing cash on a corporate treasury. The protocol is software running on a decentralized network. So the ratio screen returns nothing meaningful — there is no debt to be 30% of anything, and no impermissible income to be 5% of anything. This is the single most common error in 'is Bitcoin halal' content: applying a corporate-stock screen to an asset that is not a corporate stock. The relevant Shariah questions for Bitcoin are different — whether it qualifies as property (māl), whether it carries intrinsic or recognized value, and whether the way you trade or earn it involves riba (interest), gharar (excessive uncertainty), or maysir (gambling).
Question: So is Bitcoin halal or haram in 2026?
Answer: The honest answer is that there is no single binding ruling — this is a genuinely contested question and you will find credentialed scholars on both sides. The contemporary majority position, including bodies like the Shariah Review Bureau and a number of well-known scholars, treats Bitcoin as permissible to own and trade as property, provided you avoid the impermissible structures around it (interest-bearing crypto lending, leveraged margin trading, futures speculation, and staking products that are structured as interest). A significant minority — including rulings issued in some jurisdictions — hold that Bitcoin fails because it lacks intrinsic value, is not backed by a sovereign, and is too volatile to be a sound store of value, which they classify as excessive gharar. LifeMoney's position is that spot Bitcoin held directly, with no leverage and no interest-bearing wrapper, has a credible majority basis for permissibility — but because the matter is contested and YMYL, you should confirm with a scholar you trust before treating it as settled, and you should size the position as the speculative holding it is.
Question: Does buying Bitcoin involve riba, gharar, or maysir?
Answer: Spot purchase of Bitcoin itself does not involve riba — you are buying an asset outright, not lending or borrowing at interest. The riba problem appears the moment you wrap Bitcoin in an interest-bearing product: crypto lending platforms that pay you a fixed yield, 'earn' accounts, and most staking-as-a-service offerings are structured as interest and are not permissible. Gharar (excessive uncertainty) is the strongest argument the prohibition camp makes — Bitcoin's volatility is real, and a 50%+ drawdown in a year is not unusual. But volatility alone is not the same as the prohibited gharar of an unknowable contract; you know exactly what you are buying and at what price. Maysir (gambling) is the real line to watch: day-trading on leverage, perpetual futures, and options are speculation structured like a wager and cross into maysir. The distinction that matters is owning Bitcoin as a long-term asset (defensible) versus gambling on its price with borrowed money (not defensible).
Question: Is a Bitcoin ETF like the ones on the TSX halal?
Answer: A spot Bitcoin ETF that simply holds Bitcoin and tracks its price does not introduce a corporate-balance-sheet problem the way an equity ETF like XEQT does, because the underlying asset is Bitcoin, not a basket of conventional banks. So the equity-ETF screening logic does not transfer. The questions are instead (1) does the ETF actually hold spot Bitcoin or does it use futures and derivatives — futures-based crypto ETFs introduce maysir and gharar concerns and are harder to justify; and (2) does the fund engage in lending out its holdings for yield, which would introduce riba. A plain spot-Bitcoin ETF that holds the coins and does not lend them is, for scholars who accept Bitcoin as property, broadly defensible. A futures-based or yield-generating crypto fund is not. Read the fund's prospectus before assuming. Note also that holding the ETF inside an RRSP or TFSA does not change the Shariah analysis — the wrapper is a tax structure, not a Shariah structure.
Question: How do I pay zakat on Bitcoin?
Answer: If you accept Bitcoin as property, the majority view is that zakat applies to it the same way it applies to other tradeable assets you hold for investment: 2.5% annually on the market value once your total zakatable wealth is above the nisab threshold and a lunar year has passed. The practical mechanics: take the Canadian-dollar market value of your Bitcoin on your zakat due date, add it to your other zakatable assets (cash, halal stocks held for trade, gold), and if the combined total exceeds nisab, pay 2.5% of the Bitcoin's value. So $40,000 of Bitcoin generates $1,000 of zakat in that year. The volatility creates a real practical wrinkle — the value on your zakat date may be far above or below where it sat for most of the year — but the rule is based on the value on the due date, not the average. Pay zakat in cash from outside the position; you do not need to sell Bitcoin to pay it, but you do need to value it in CAD on the due date.
Question: What about Ethereum, staking, and altcoins — same answer?
Answer: Not automatically. Ethereum-the-asset faces a similar property-and-volatility analysis to Bitcoin, and many scholars who permit Bitcoin extend the same reasoning to Ether held spot. But staking is where it diverges sharply: proof-of-stake rewards are treated by some scholars as a form of return on a locked deposit that resembles interest, and by others as a legitimate fee for providing network validation services — this is unsettled and you should not assume staking yield is permissible. Altcoins are a much harder case: many have no clear use, are pre-mined and controlled by a small group, or are explicitly tied to impermissible activities (gambling protocols, lending protocols paying interest). A coin whose entire purpose is to power an interest-based lending platform or an online casino fails on business-activity grounds even if you only hold the token. Screen each coin on what the project actually does, not on the fact that it is 'crypto.'
Question: Is leveraged or margin crypto trading ever halal?
Answer: No, and this is one of the clearer points in an otherwise contested area. Margin trading means borrowing money — almost always at interest — to amplify your position, which is riba directly. Perpetual futures, options, and leveraged tokens are speculative contracts whose payoff is structured like a wager on price direction, which is maysir (gambling). Even setting aside the riba on the borrowed funds, the leverage itself converts ownership of an asset into a bet on short-term price movement. The permissibility case for Bitcoin rests entirely on treating it as a real asset you own outright and hold. The moment you add leverage, you have left that argument behind. If you want exposure to Bitcoin within a Shariah-compliant framework, the only defensible route is spot — buy the coin (or a spot ETF), own it, hold it, and do not borrow against it.
Question: If broad-market ETFs like XEQT fail the halal screen, why might Bitcoin pass when it's riskier?
Answer: Because the two assets fail or pass for completely different reasons, and risk is not the screening criterion. XEQT fails because it structurally holds conventional banks and insurers whose core business is interest-based lending — that is a business-activity failure baked into the asset, and no amount of holding it differently changes the fact that you own a slice of riba-based finance. Bitcoin has no such underlying business; there is no bank inside Bitcoin earning interest. So the thing that disqualifies XEQT simply does not exist in Bitcoin. Shariah screening is about the source and structure of the return, not about volatility or risk of loss — a halal investment can lose money, and a haram one can be very safe. Bitcoin's risk is a sizing-and-suitability question for your financial plan, not a Shariah-compliance question. They are separate tests, and conflating 'risky' with 'haram' is a common mistake.
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