LIN

Linde PLC

HALAL — METHODS DIFFERstock

Is LIN Halal?

Industrial gases — permissible manufacturing/industrial business.

What You Should Know

Linde supplies industrial gases and related engineering services, including oxygen, nitrogen and hydrogen. Its March 31, 2026 filing reports debt/assets of 30.49%, liquidity/assets of 4.59% and receivables plus cash/assets of 10.75%. Gross interest income is not separately disclosed, and the filing does not provide a universal prohibited-revenue numerator for customer end uses or contracts, so the business screen remains incomplete.

⚠️ Concerns

  • Debt/assets is below the examined 33% limits but remains close enough to monitor
  • Gross interest income is not separately disclosed; interest expense was $62 million for the quarter
  • Hydrogen, defense, energy and industrial customer end uses require qualitative review
  • The filing does not quantify any prohibited-revenue category

Current quantitative Sharia screen

Based on 10-Q figures for the period ended 2026-03-31; calculated 2026-07-14.

USD · millions
Interest-bearing debt / assets
30.49%Within limit
Below 33.333% under FTSE Yasaar

26,317 / 86,315

Cash + interest-bearing securities / assets
4.59%Within limit
Below 33.333% under FTSE Yasaar

3,959 / 86,315

Receivables + cash / assets
10.75%Within limit
Below 50% under FTSE Yasaar

9,280 / 86,315

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

Debt/assets is 30.49%, liquidity/assets is 4.59% and receivables plus cash/assets is 10.75%; gross interest income is unavailable.

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

The examined total-assets ratios pass, but customer end-use and contract revenue remain incompletely screened; this is not an index-membership claim.

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

Debt/assets and identifiable liquidity/assets are below the examined limits; activity remains incomplete and this is not an official classification.

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

A properly licensed historical market-cap series is not stored, so these methods are not estimated from a current spot price.

Business-activity disclosure

Linde supplies industrial gases and engineering services, including oxygen, nitrogen and hydrogen. The core manufacturing activity is generally permissible, while customer end uses and contract-level activity require evidence.

Limitation: The filing does not provide a universal prohibited-revenue numerator by customer end use, government contract, hydrogen application or other scholar-sensitive category.

Purification

Gross interest income is not separately disclosed and business-category revenue remains incomplete; ZakatInvest does not prescribe a fixed purification percentage.

Inputs, assumptions and primary sources
  • Amounts are USD millions from Linde's March 31, 2026 Form 10-Q and rounded to the nearest million.
  • Debt is short-term debt of $4,822 million, current long-term debt of $1,636 million and long-term debt of $19,859 million; operating lease liabilities are excluded.
  • Cash is $3,959 million and the filing does not identify a separate balance of interest-bearing securities for this input.
  • Accounts receivable is $5,321 million and quarterly sales are $8,781 million.
  • Gross interest income is not separately disclosed; interest expense-net was $62 million.
  • Industrial-gas, engineering and hydrogen customer end uses are not allocated into a universal prohibited-revenue numerator.

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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