Is SONY (Sony Group Corp.) halal?

Q: Is SONY (Sony Group Corp.) halal?

DOUBTFUL: Electronics and entertainment — financial ratios pass, but content mix is materially unresolved. Sony's FY2025 Form 20-F shows ratios below the examined financial limits, but music, film, television and games revenue includes content that cannot be classified from aggregate disclosure alone. The former financial-services business was deconsolidated in March 2026.

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SONY

Sony Group Corp.

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Is SONY Halal?

Electronics and entertainment — financial ratios pass, but content mix is materially unresolved.

What You Should Know

Sony's FY2025 Form 20-F shows ratios below the examined financial limits, but music, film, television and games revenue includes content that cannot be classified from aggregate disclosure alone. The former financial-services business was deconsolidated in March 2026.

⚠️ Concerns

•Entertainment content includes haram material
•Music industry exposure
•PlayStation gaming concerns

Current quantitative Sharia screen

Based on Form 20-F figures for the period ended 2026-03-31; calculated 2026-07-14.

JPY · millions

Interest-bearing debt / assets

10.65%Within limit

Below 33.333% under FTSE Yasaar

1,669,669 / 15,683,490

Cash + interest-bearing securities / assets

14.23%Within limit

Below 33.333% under FTSE Yasaar

2,232,454 / 15,683,490

Receivables + cash / assets

25.70%Within limit

Below 50% under FTSE Yasaar

4,030,795 / 15,683,490

Non-compliant income / revenue

0.50%Within limit

No more than 5% under FTSE Yasaar

62,872 / 12,479,620

Methodology	Financial	Overall	What drives it
FTSE Yasaar v4.6, February 2026	Pass	Incomplete	Debt/assets is 10.65%, liquidity/assets is 14.24%, receivables plus cash/assets is 25.70% and interest income is 0.50% of revenue; financial ratios pass, but prohibited-content classification remains incomplete.
MSCI Islamic (total-assets series) October 2024 methodology	Pass	Incomplete	Debt/assets, liquidity/assets and receivables plus cash/assets are below the examined MSCI total-assets limits, but content classification remains incomplete.
Malaysia SAC financial ratios single 5% activity benchmark adopted November 2025	Pass	Incomplete	Debt/assets and liquidity/assets are below the examined Malaysia limits; content classification remains incomplete and this is not an official SAC classification.
Market-cap denominator methods MSCI M-Series, S&P and Dow Jones methods differ	Not calculated	Incomplete	Historical market-cap inputs are not stored and the content portfolio is not mapped to a scholar-approved market-cap convention.

FTSE Yasaar

v4.6, February 2026

Financial: Pass
Overall: Incomplete

Debt/assets is 10.65%, liquidity/assets is 14.24%, receivables plus cash/assets is 25.70% and interest income is 0.50% of revenue; financial ratios pass, but prohibited-content classification remains 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 total-assets limits, but content classification remains incomplete.

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; content classification remains incomplete and 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

Historical market-cap inputs are not stored and the content portfolio is not mapped to a scholar-approved market-cap convention.

Business-activity disclosure

Sony combines electronics, games, music, film, television, animation and network services. Electronics and general technology are generally permissible, while content-specific revenue and customer use vary materially.

Limitation: The filing does not provide a reproducible prohibited-content revenue numerator for music, film, television, games or advertising.

Purification

Sony discloses interest income, but ZakatInvest does not infer a scholar-approved purification percentage from the aggregate line.

Inputs, assumptions and primary sources

Amounts are JPY millions from Sony's fiscal-year 2025 Form 20-F.
Debt includes borrowings, current and long-term debt and lease liabilities; debt securities of JPY 23,575 million are used as identifiable interest-bearing securities.
Trade and other receivables plus contract assets are JPY 1,821,916 million, continuing-operations sales are JPY 12,479,620 million and disclosed interest income is JPY 62,872 million.
Sony Financial Group, Inc. was deconsolidated on March 31, 2026; the filing does not allocate music, film, television or games revenue by prohibited content.

Sony Group Corporation: Sony Group Corporation Form 20-F for fiscal year ended March 31, 2026 FTSE Russell: FTSE Yasaar Global Equity Shariah Index Series Ground Rules MSCI: MSCI Islamic Index Series Methodology Securities Commission Malaysia: Shariah-Compliant Securities Screening Methodology

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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