ARKK

ARK Innovation ETF

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Is ARKK Halal?

Innovation ETF — tech/biotech focus with some doubtful holdings.

What You Should Know

ARK Innovation's January 31, 2026 report shows $6.743 billion of assets. The fund-level balance-sheet ratios are low (liquidity 0.02%; receivables plus cash 0.98%) and disclosed interest/securities-lending income is about 0.04% of investment income, but the report does not provide a complete prohibited-revenue allocation. Technology and biotech are generally permissible; Coinbase and Block lending products remain qualitative concerns.

⚠️ Concerns

  • Coinbase exposure (crypto exchange)
  • Block Inc. lending products
  • Not Sharia-screened

Current quantitative Sharia screen

Based on N-CSRS figures for the period ended 2026-01-31; calculated 2026-07-14.

USD · millions
Interest-bearing debt / assets
0.00%Within limit
Below 33.333% under FTSE Yasaar

0 / 6,742.886

Cash + interest-bearing securities / assets
0.02%Within limit
Below 33.333% under FTSE Yasaar

1.603 / 6,742.886

Receivables + cash / assets
0.98%Within limit
Below 50% under FTSE Yasaar

65.909 / 6,742.886

Non-compliant income / revenue
0.04%Within limit
No more than 5% under FTSE Yasaar

0.002 / 4.792

FTSE Yasaar
v4.6, February 2026
Financial
Pass
Overall
Incomplete

Debt/assets is 0.00%, liquidity/assets is 0.02%, receivables plus cash/assets is 0.98% and disclosed incidental income is about 0.04%; the underlying portfolio remains activity-incomplete.

MSCI Islamic (total-assets series)
October 2024 methodology
Financial
Pass
Overall
Incomplete

Debt/assets, liquidity/assets and receivables plus cash/assets are below the examined MSCI asset limits, but underlying issuer activity is not classified by a universal prohibited-revenue numerator.

Malaysia SAC financial ratios
single 5% activity benchmark adopted November 2025
Financial
Pass
Overall
Incomplete

Debt/assets and liquidity/assets are below the examined Malaysia limits; the pass-through portfolio remains qualitatively and methodologically incomplete.

Market-cap denominator methods
MSCI M-Series, S&P and Dow Jones methods differ
Financial
Not calculated
Overall
Incomplete

A licensed historical market-cap series and a fund-level prohibited-income convention are not stored.

Business-activity disclosure

ARKK is a pass-through innovation ETF focused on technology, genomics and other disruptive businesses. Core technology and biotech activity is generally permissible, but issuer-level activities and financial ratios are not uniformly screened by the fund.

Limitation: The report provides holdings and income lines but no school-neutral prohibited-revenue allocation for every underlying issuer.

Purification

ARKK discloses incidental securities-lending income, but no scholar-approved purification percentage is inferred from the aggregate fund distribution.

Inputs, assumptions and primary sources
  • Amounts are USD millions from ARKK's January 31, 2026 shareholder report.
  • The report shows USD 6,742.886 million of total assets, USD 0.002 million of cash, USD 1.601 million in Treasury money-market funds and USD 65.907 million of listed receivables.
  • Securities-lending income is used as the disclosed incidental-income numerator; the report does not isolate a complete prohibited-revenue allocation across underlying holdings.
  • Coinbase, Block and other issuer-specific activities remain qualitative observations, not an unsupported percentage.
  • ETF look-through ratios are not an official FTSE, MSCI or Malaysia classification.

This is a reproducible financial screen, not a fatwa. A failed total-assets screen can coexist with a pass under a market-cap methodology. ZakatInvest keeps the qualitative assessment separate so numerical thresholds do not erase material context.

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