The Short Answer
Digital Realty (DLR) is doubtful under the current consolidated screen. Data centers are generally permissible infrastructure, but the March 2026 filing reports debt/assets of 37.12%, above the examined asset-based limits. This page separates the quantitative result from the REIT structure and does not claim a universal scholar ruling.
Current quantitative Sharia screen
Based on 10-Q figures for the period ended 2026-03-31; calculated 2026-07-13.
18,138 / 48,859.973
2,426.631 / 48,859.973
3,856.873 / 48,859.973
- Financial
- Fails
- Overall
- Fails
Debt/assets is 37.12%, above the examined 33.333% limit; liquidity is 4.97% and receivables plus cash are 7.89%. Gross interest income is unavailable and the REIT structure remains qualitative.
- Financial
- Fails
- Overall
- Fails
Debt/assets is 37.12%, above the examined MSCI 33.33% limit. Liquidity and receivables-plus-cash are below their known limits, but the financial screen fails on debt.
- Financial
- Fails
- Overall
- Fails
Debt/assets is 37.12%, above the examined Malaysia SAC 33% limit. This is a contextual calculation, not an official classification of a U.S.-listed REIT.
- Financial
- Not calculated
- Overall
- Incomplete
A properly licensed historical market-cap series is not stored, so no unsupported market-cap percentage is substituted for the filing-backed asset calculation.
Business-activity disclosure
Digital Realty owns and operates data centers and related digital infrastructure, a generally permissible real-estate and technology-infrastructure activity. The conventional REIT structure, joint ventures, data-center customer contracts and finance income require qualitative review.
Limitation: The filing does not provide a universal prohibited-revenue numerator or a standalone gross interest-income figure suitable for a fixed purification claim.
Purification
Digital Realty does not separately disclose a reproducible gross interest-income numerator for this quarter and does not prescribe a scholar-approved purification percentage.
Inputs, assumptions and primary sources
- Amounts are USD millions from the unaudited March 31, 2026 Form 10-Q.
- Debt is the disclosed $18,138 million consolidated debt balance; operating lease liabilities are excluded.
- Cash excludes $10.841 million restricted cash. No separate marketable-securities balance is added.
- Accounts and other receivables, net are $1,430.242 million. Deferred rent is not added to avoid treating straight-line rent as a current receivable.
- Total operating revenue was $1,635.173 million for the quarter. The filing reports other income net and interest expense, not a reproducible gross interest-income numerator.
- Digital Realty is a data-center REIT; the underlying real-estate activity is generally permissible, while conventional REIT leverage, swaps and distribution treatment require methodology-specific review.
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.
The calculation uses Digital Realty's unaudited March 31, 2026 Form 10-Q. Amounts are USD millions; the page keeps the REIT's qualitative concerns visible instead of reducing the answer to one ratio.
Current Quantitative Screen (March 31, 2026)
- Interest-bearing debt / assets: 37.12% — $18,138M debt
- Cash + securities / assets: 4.97% — $2,426.631M cash; no separate securities balance added
- Receivables + cash / assets: 7.89% — $1,430.242M receivables plus cash
- Revenue: $1,635.173M quarterly operating revenue
- Income screen: Not calculated; gross interest income is not separately disclosed
Debt fails the examined FTSE Yasaar, MSCI and Malaysia SAC asset-based limits. Liquidity and receivables-plus-cash are below the displayed limits, but those passes do not offset the debt failure.
Business Activity and REIT Structure
Digital Realty owns and operates data centers and related digital infrastructure. That underlying real-estate activity is generally permissible. The Sharia questions are the conventional REIT capital stack, senior notes, credit facilities, secured debt, interest-rate swaps, cross-currency swaps and distribution treatment.
The filing also describes joint ventures, Digital Core REIT and asset contributions. Data-center customers include cloud, telecom, enterprise and financial-sector users; customer industry alone is not a prohibited-revenue numerator.
Qualitative Concerns
- Debt/assets is 37.12% and debt financing is central to the REIT.
- Swaps alter the economics of the fixed- and variable-rate debt.
- Joint ventures and asset contributions change the reporting perimeter.
- No reproducible gross interest-income numerator or fixed purification percentage is asserted.
Bottom Line
DLR is doubtful under the current ZakatInvest screen: its data-center assets are generally permissible, but March 2026 debt/assets is above the examined limits. Investors following a REIT-permitting methodology should still obtain a qualified scholar's view on leverage, swaps, dividends and purification.
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