Wa alaykum salaam,
After ensuring that the core business activity is acceptable from a Shariah perspective, a financial screening is performed. The financial screening consists of ratios to determine the level of excessive and intolerable exposure to interest in the conventional financial markets. The AAOIFI Shariah screening criteria consists of the following ratios:
(1) Interest-based debt: The collective amount raised as a loan on interest, whether long-term or short-term debt does not exceed 30% of the market capitalization of the corporation.
(2) Interest-based deposit: The total amount of interest taking deposits, whether short, medium or long term, does not exceed 30% of the market capitalization of total equity.
(3) Earning from impermissible activities: The amount of income generated from prohibited component does not exceed 5% of the total income of the corporation, irrespective of the income being generated by undertaking a prohibited activity, by ownership of prohibited assets or in some other way.