2019
DOI: 10.31235/osf.io/b7j4e
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The Islamic Shariah Principles for Investment in Stock Market

Abstract: Due to chronic financial crises experienced during last several decades repeatedly and a failure to protect investors‟ rights as a result, the world is looking for an alternative form of stock market for quite some time so that interests of all relevant stakeholders can be safeguarded. At the same time, from the perspectives of devout Muslims, the current form of stock market restricts a Muslim to make investments in the market due to unsatisfying several provisions from the Islamic law, known as shariah. This… Show more

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“…Aside from the banking industry, mudharabah contract is also used in the stock market where shareholders or investors act as the shabibul maal, and the issuing firms act as mudharib utilizing the fund for the business purpose. Between these two parties, there is a profit and loss sharing mechanism that resembles the mudharabah contract (Alam, Akbar, Shahriar, & Elahi, 2017).…”
Section: Source Of Knowing Islamic Rural Banksmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Aside from the banking industry, mudharabah contract is also used in the stock market where shareholders or investors act as the shabibul maal, and the issuing firms act as mudharib utilizing the fund for the business purpose. Between these two parties, there is a profit and loss sharing mechanism that resembles the mudharabah contract (Alam, Akbar, Shahriar, & Elahi, 2017).…”
Section: Source Of Knowing Islamic Rural Banksmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Sharīʿah provides a small number of guidelines about the nature of the firm, which focuses mainly on religious values and social well-being. First of all, the main business of the company must be accepted (halal) according to Islamic principles (Alam et al, 2017). Furthermore, one of the most important principles in Islamic finance is the prohibition of riba (usury and interest), which is defined as "any predetermined or fixed return in financial transaction" (Aggarwal and Yousef, 2000).…”
Section: Qualitative and Quantitative Criteria For Sharīʿah-compliant Companiesmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…A generally accepted range for the debt is that the debt ratio must be lower than 33 per cent (Butt, 2014). In particular, The Dow Jones Islamic Market Index, the FTSE Islamic Index, the Shariah Advisory Council of Securities and the Exchange Commission in Malaysia exclude the firms in which debt to asset ratio is superior than or equal to 33 per cent (Alam et al, 2017). Furthermore, Islamic financial institutions have adopted other quantitative Sharīʿah-compliant screening criteria around the world (FTSE Shariah global equity index): cash and interest-bearing securities to total assets (interest ratio); the level of interest ratio must be lower than 33 per cent; cash and account receivable to total assets (liquidity ratio); the level of liquidity ratio must be lower than 50 per cent; and non-permissible income to total revenues (non-permissible income); the income ineligible ratio must be lower than five per cent.…”
Section: Qualitative and Quantitative Criteria For Sharīʿah-compliant Companiesmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Ng & Ariff, 2019). Islamic stocks index has trading characteristics where market participants can benefit greatly, and this index is predicted to go down or go up with a widespread (Alam et al, 2017).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%