GRAB

Grab Holdings Ltd.

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Is GRAB Halal?

Ride-hailing and delivery are generally permissible, but lending, payments and restricted-product delivery create material qualitative concerns and the income screen fails under a conservative treatment.

What You Should Know

Grab's December 31, 2025 Form 20-F reports $11,983 million of assets, $2,053 million of borrowings, $3,433 million of cash, $240 million of receivables and $3,370 million of revenue. Debt/assets is 17.13%, liquidity/assets is 28.65% and receivables-plus-cash/assets is 30.65%. Finance income of $240 million is 7.12% of revenue on a conservative upper-bound basis, above the examined FTSE income limit. GrabFinance, alcohol delivery and marketplace mix remain qualitative.

⚠️ Concerns

  • GrabFinance and other lending products create riba concerns
  • Finance income is 7.12% of annual revenue on a conservative upper-bound basis
  • Alcohol and other restricted products may be delivered in some markets
  • Customer and merchant mix is broad and not fully screened

Current quantitative Sharia screen

Based on 20-F figures for the period ended 2025-12-31; calculated 2026-07-15.

USD · millions
Interest-bearing debt / assets
17.13%Within limit
Below 33.333% under FTSE Yasaar

2,053 / 11,983

Cash + interest-bearing securities / assets
28.65%Within limit
Below 33.333% under FTSE Yasaar

3,433 / 11,983

Receivables + cash / assets
30.65%Within limit
Below 50% under FTSE Yasaar

3,673 / 11,983

Non-compliant income / revenue (upper bound)
7.12%Above limit
No more than 5% under FTSE Yasaar

240 / 3,370

FTSE Yasaar
v4.6, February 2026
Financial
Fails
Overall
Fails

Debt/assets is 17.13%, liquidity/assets is 28.65% and receivables-plus-cash/assets is 30.65%; conservative finance income is 7.12% of revenue, above the examined 5% limit.

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 limits; activity classification remains incomplete.

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

Known debt and liquidity ratios are below the examined Malaysia limits; this is not an official SAC classification.

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

A licensed and reproducible historical market-cap series is not stored.

Business-activity disclosure

Grab operates ride-hailing, delivery, digital payments and financial-services products. Mobility and ordinary delivery are generally permissible, while lending, payments, alcohol delivery and product-level marketplace activity require school-specific review.

Limitation: The Form 20-F does not provide a universal prohibited-revenue numerator across GrabFinance, payments, merchants and delivered products.

Purification

Finance income is disclosed, but no scholar-approved purification percentage or complete prohibited-revenue numerator is asserted.

Inputs, assumptions and primary sources
  • Amounts are USD millions from Grab's December 31, 2025 Form 20-F.
  • Debt combines $1,680 million of short-term borrowings and $373 million of long-term borrowings.
  • Cash is $3,433 million; current financial assets are not treated as interest-bearing securities without a security-level classification.
  • Trade and other current receivables are $240 million and annual revenue is $3,370 million.
  • Finance income of $240 million is used as a conservative upper-bound income numerator because the filing's finance-income line includes more than pure interest.

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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