Islam in the house
No tub to sell you
Is this halal? Can I pay this as zakat? Check it at the table.
Most pages answering “is this halal” have a tub to sell you. This house does not. Check a label, work out zakat at the table, and read a straight note on where scholars actually differ.
Pantry checker
E-numbers and ordinary cupboard names. Doubtful means the source is unnamed.
Open the checker
Table calculator
Cash, crypto, trade goods. You type today’s metal price. Jewellery and salary have their own pages.
Open the calculator
On the block
How to verify a mosque or a kitchen. We will not publish a map that goes stale by Tuesday.
Verify a mosque
Among people
Neighbour or institution, student, debt, a new Muslim. Need is the test, not a slogan.
Neighbour or institution
In the cupboard
- How to read a grocery label
- Is vanilla extract halal?
- Is soy sauce halal?
- Rennet in cheese
- Gelatin in sweets
- Packed school lunch
- Is MSG halal?
- Mouthwash and toothpaste
At the table
- What is hawl?
- Gold jewellery you wear
- Zakat on salary
- Stocks and retirement pots
- Nisab, explained
- Crypto that lost value
On the block
- How to verify a mosque
- Friday prayer as a visitor
- How to verify a restaurant
- Butcher or supermarket
- What a listing cannot promise
Among people
- Family or neighbours
- Neighbour or institution
- Who can receive zakat
- Zakat to a student
- Someone in debt
- A new Muslim
- A non-Muslim neighbour
- A mosque building
- Unpaid zakat when someone dies
- Zakat vs sadaqah
- Writing a wasiyyah
Also on this shelf
- Is creatine halal?
- Is carmine halal?
- Carmine in cosmetics
- Gelatin in medicine
- Certification symbols
- Verifying a restaurant
Quick answers
- What does Hood mean here?
- The house and the block you can walk. Pantry labels, zakat at the kitchen table, how to verify a mosque or a kitchen. Not a live map.
- Is this a fatwa site?
- No. We source published positions and name disagreement. Ask a scholar you trust for your case.
- Do the tools upload what I type?
- No. The checker and calculator run in your browser.
- Will you list mosques and restaurants?
- No. Listings go stale. We write how to verify a door, then you walk to it.