Certification
Independent Shari'ah review of a product, an endowment, or a charity's projects, certified under the scholarly oversight of IFA's Panel of Scholars, and published on a register anyone can check.
A claim you can check, not one you take on trust
Anyone can say their product is halal, or that their cause deserves your zakah. Certification replaces that claim with an independent review by qualified scholars — recorded, dated, and published on a register that stays open to the public. Each certification covers a specific product or project, not the organisation as a whole, and is reviewed every year.
Three live seals from the register — tap any to check it.
Three kinds of certification
Shari'ah-Compliant
Products, services and company structures reviewed against IFA's Shari'ah standards and certified as compliant.
Waqf-Compliant
Endowment (Waqf) structures reviewed against the principles of Waqf in the Shari'ah and certified as sound.
Zakah-Eligible
Charitable projects assessed against IFA's published Zakah Policy and verified as eligible to receive and distribute zakah.
A standard worth guarding
Weighing a product against the Shari'ah is specialist work — layered structures, centuries of jurisprudence, detail that doesn't survive a marketing page. Claiming, meanwhile, is free: anyone can write “Shari'ah compliant”, and a familiar face can be found to say it. Certification protects what the words mean — and gives people trying to honour the divine law a standard they can recognise, check, and trust.
Shari'ah compliance
Finance moves faster than any tradition's vocabulary. Weighing a modern instrument or structure against the Shari'ah is genuinely difficult, specialist work — which is exactly why it belongs with qualified scholars, recorded and published, not in a product description.
Waqf
Waqf is growing again — endowments built to outlast their founders. Almost no one regulates this space, and unwatched it can fall exactly where charity has fallen before. Oversight now keeps an endowment what its founder intended, for as long as it stands.
Zakah
Zakah is not generosity at the margin — it is an obligation, one of the five pillars of Islam, with conditions on where it may go. A Muslim's duty is only discharged when those conditions are met. Certification turns that uncertainty into something a donor can check.
Pick your path
Check a certification
Search the public register to confirm an organisation's certification is active and see exactly what it covers.
Search the registerGet your work certified
A credential your customers, investors and regulators can verify — for businesses, charities and financial institutions.
Why get certifiedGiving to charity?
Your zakah is only valid if it reaches an eligible recipient. Check a cause is certified before you give.
Before you give