MSI
Motorola Solutions Inc.
Is MSI Halal?
Public-safety communications are generally permissible, but the current total-assets debt screen fails and downstream end use remains qualitative.
What You Should Know
Motorola Solutions' April 4, 2026 filing reports 46.99% interest-bearing debt/assets, 5.63% identifiable liquidity/assets, 22.64% receivables-plus-cash/assets and 0.26% disclosed interest income/revenue. Public-safety technology is generally permissible, but government, defense and surveillance end use requires qualitative review.
⚠️ Concerns
- •Debt/assets was 46.99%
- •Government and defense customer mix is not fully disaggregated
- •Interest income was 7 million in the quarter
Current quantitative Sharia screen
Based on 10-Q figures for the period ended 2026-04-04; calculated 2026-07-14.
8,965 / 19,080
1,073 / 19,080
4,320 / 19,080
7 / 2,714
- Financial
- Fails
- Overall
- Fails
Debt/assets is 46.99%, while identifiable liquidity/assets is 5.63%, receivables plus cash/assets is 22.64% and interest income/revenue is 0.26%; debt fails the examined limit.
- Financial
- Fails
- Overall
- Fails
The debt/assets ratio is above the examined limit; other calculated ratios are below their limits and business classification remains qualitative.
- Financial
- Fails
- Overall
- Fails
Debt/assets is above 33%; this is a calculation against SAC ratios, not an official classification.
- Financial
- Not calculated
- Overall
- Not calculated
A licensed reproducible 24- or 36-month market-cap history is not stored; a spot estimate is not substituted.
Business-activity disclosure
Motorola Solutions provides public-safety communications, video security, command software and services. The core activity is generally permissible, while government, defense and downstream end-use exposure requires qualitative review.
Limitation: The filing does not classify every customer, contract or end use under a Sharia standard.
Purification
Interest income is disclosed, but ZakatInvest does not prescribe a fixed scholar-approved purification percentage.
Inputs, assumptions and primary sources
- Amounts are USD millions from Motorola Solutions' April 4, 2026 Form 10-Q.
- Debt includes current debt of 550 and long-term debt of 8,415.
- Receivables include accounts receivable of 2,046 and contract assets of 1,388; government money-market funds are included in cash and are not double-counted.
- The filing reports 7 of interest income and 111 of interest expense.
- Revenue and customer end-use categories do not provide 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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