The International Union of Muslim Scholars issued a fatwa regarding the ruling on trading in digital currencies in Iraq and in Arab countries. He published on his website the fatwa issued by the Jurisprudence and Fatwa Committee regarding dealing in these encrypted digital currencies. Which prohibits dealing in these virtual currencies in their current state. And prohibiting its manufacture or circulation.
حكم العملات الرقميهThe committee explained some of the reasons on which it relied on that fatwa. Among them is that these encrypted digital currencies do not meet the pillars and conditions of money according to economists and jurists. Which includes the ruling cash currencies. It should be average among all funds so that funds can be estimated using it. The percentage for all funds should be one percentage.
In addition, digital currencies do not perform any of the functions that paper currencies and money perform. The most important of which is that currencies are a general medium for various exchange operations, a measure of the value of things, a store of wealth, and a standard for debts and future payments. But Bitcoin and similar digital currencies do not resemble any actual and real entity. It was not issued by any guarantor from any country. Therefore, it does not meet the most important condition for money, which is that it must have a value guaranteed by the entity that issued it.
