How Murabaha, Ijara, and Sukuk work under AAOIFI standards — and how to integrate them via API in your fintech or neobank.
AAOIFI-compliant product structures
Islamic finance markets
no proprietary SDK
Islamic finance is built on three prohibitions that define the structure of every product.
Islamic finance prohibits charging and receiving interest. Profit is derived through trade, asset ownership, or profit-sharing — not through monetary lending.
Contracts must have clear terms, defined goods/services, and predictable outcomes. Ambiguity, speculation, and excessive risk are prohibited.
Every financial transaction must be tied to a real underlying asset or service. This excludes purely speculative products.
Three product structures certified to AAOIFI standards, ready for integration.
The bank purchases an asset and sells it to the customer with a pre-agreed markup. Ideal for consumer goods, real estate, or trade finance. The profit margin is disclosed upfront.
Asset-backed leasing: the institution retains ownership, and the client pays periodic rent. Used for equipment, vehicles, and real estate.
Shariah-compliant certificates representing proportional ownership in a pool of underlying assets. Suitable for institutional capital raising.
From API key to a live Murabaha transaction in four steps.
Pre-configured compliance rules for major Islamic finance jurisdictions.
Saudi Arabia (SAMA), UAE (CBUAE), Qatar (QCB), Kuwait (CBK), Bahrain (CBB). Full AAOIFI compliance, Arabic language support, and SAR, AED, QAR, KWD, BHD currencies.
Malaysia (BNM), Indonesia (OJK), Brunei (AMBD). BNM Islamic Financial Services Framework, Ringgit and Rupiah support.
Pakistan (SBP Islamic Banking), Bangladesh (BB), Turkey (BDDK participation banks). Local payment rails: Raast, NIFT, IBFT.
Egypt (CBE Islamic banking), Morocco (BAM Participative Finance), Tunisia. Arabic UI/UX, EGP/MAD/TND support.
UK Islamic finance (FCA), Germany (BaFin), Luxembourg Sukuk hub. EUR-denominated Islamic products for European Muslim communities.
Connect your own Shariah supervisory board certifications. Configure fatwa references, profit calculation methods, and reporting formats for any jurisdiction.
The Islamic finance market is valued at over $4 trillion and growing at 10–12% annually. Yet digitization in this sector lags significantly behind conventional finance: most Islamic banks run on legacy core banking systems with no full-featured API. For fintech companies, this creates a unique window of opportunity — offering Shariah-compliant products in a modern digital wrapper.
The key challenge of Islamic finance is not the religious restrictions but their technical implementation. Murabaha requires two-phase transactions (the bank buys the asset, then sells it to the customer), Ijara requires tracking ownership and rental payments, and Sukuk requires proportional profit distribution among holders. 4Pay.online supports all of these models through a standard REST API.
Another key advantage is multi-regional support. AAOIFI and Shariah Board standards differ between the GCC, Southeast Asia, and Europe. The platform lets you configure compliance rules for each market independently, ensuring adherence to local requirements without duplicating infrastructure.
Four setup wizards. The operator runs them alone — no development needed.
Available products, regulatory regime and the Sharia board precondition.
Jurisdiction and supervisor, Sharia board composition, product set — murabaha, ijara, musharaka, mudaraba, wakalah, sukuk, zakat — markup instead of lending interest, maximum deal term and the handling of arrears.
Each side's contribution share, profit split by agreement and loss strictly by contribution — and for the diminishing form, a month-by-month buyout schedule.
The endowment corpus, beneficiaries with shares, trustees and documents: establishment is irreversible and is confirmed by re-entering the amount.
What is collected for arrears cannot be the operator's income: the wizard sets either no charges at all or a transfer to charitable purposes.
Register and go through the Islamic banking wizard yourself: jurisdiction and supervision, the Shariah board, products in Islamic terminology. The board's composition and its rulings you agree with your own scholars.
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