Halal or Not MCP server

• ask_is_it_halalFree

  Ask any 'is it halal' question. Covers money (savings, credit cards, mortgages, BNPL, insurance, pensions, trading), crypto, medicine, food and drink, and everyday life (music, dogs, tattoos, nail polish, smoking, games, photos, jobs). Returns the verdict, the main scholarly views and halal alternatives. Also recognises single ingredients and E-numbers.

• check_cryptoFree

  Is this cryptocurrency halal? Classifies a coin by what it does (lending, gambling, meme, stablecoin, staking, general-purpose) and gives the scholarly views on crypto and on how it's used.

• check_fundFree

  Is this fund, ETF or pension fund halal? Recognises Shariah funds by name or ticker. For other US-registered funds and ETFs, reads the latest SEC holdings report and screens every holding by industry and debt. UK-listed ETFs (VUSA, CSPX, VWRL, SWDA, EQQQ, ISF and others) and fund names (Vanguard S&P 500, FTSE 100 tracker, LifeStrategy) are answered through a US fund tracking the same index, or from what the index holds, with UK Shariah options.

• check_ingredientsFree

  Check an ingredients list. Takes the ingredients exactly as printed on the pack. Returns an overall verdict, a verdict for each school, and every flagged ingredient with the reason.

• check_medicineFree

  Is this medicine halal? Reads a medicine's active and inactive ingredients from its US label (openFDA) and flags gelatine, alcohol, pig-derived enzymes and heparin. The headline and say line lead with the ruling on necessity, so nobody stops a prescribed medicine; the ingredient reading follows (ingredient_headline, verdict)

• check_product_by_barcodeFree

  Check a product by barcode. Looks the barcode up in Open Food Facts, then Open Beauty Facts, and checks its ingredients.

• explain_ingredientFree

  Explain one ingredient or E-number. For example 'E471', 'carmine', 'prawns', 'whey' or 'alcohol denat'. Returns the verdict for each school and the reasoning.

• explain_schoolsFree

  How the four schools differ on food. Answers 'is it halal?' for food, cosmetics, medicines, stocks, funds, crypto, money products and everyday life, showing where the four Sunni schools and the main scholarly bodies agree and where they differ, with the reasoning and halal alt...

• get_prayer_timesFree

  Today's prayer times for a place, with both Asr times and Ramadan suhoor and iftar. Answers 'is it halal?' for food, cosmetics, medicines, stocks, funds, crypto, money products and everyday life, showing where the four Sunni schools and the main scholarly bodies agree and where they differ, with the reasoning and halal alt...

• list_rulesFree

  The full rulebook. Answers 'is it halal?' for food, cosmetics, medicines, stocks, funds, crypto, money products and everyday life, showing where the four Sunni schools and the main scholarly bodies agree and where they differ, with the reasoning and halal alt...

• list_topicsFree

  Every question the rulebook covers. Answers 'is it halal?' for food, cosmetics, medicines, stocks, funds, crypto, money products and everyday life, showing where the four Sunni schools and the main scholarly bodies agree and where they differ, with the reasoning and halal alt...

• screen_stockFree

  Is this stock halal? Screens a US-listed stock via Mizan: first the business (each standard's excluded industries), then the AAOIFI, Dow Jones Islamic, S&P Shariah and MSCI Islamic debt screens. A company name also works (nvidia, philip morris). Links to halal alternatives in the same industry.

• search_productsFree

  Find products by name and check them. Searches Open Food Facts by name or brand (for example 'Haribo Starmix') and returns up to five matches, each with a verdict, plus a 'say' line for the best match. Where a brand states the source of an ingredient its label leaves unnamed (Haribo: pork gelatine in its standard UK range), that statement decides it and is quoted in brand_statement.

• –Code scanremote-only server, no package to scann/a
• Live reliabilityremote reachable in 133ms20/20
• Tool poisoning13 tool descriptions checked15/15
• Auth qualityopen endpoint, read-only tools10/15
• Maintenancelast push 3 days ago15/15
• Maintainer identityregistry namespace matches repository owner7/10

Halal or Not: common questions

Is Halal or Not MCP server safe?

Yes, by our scan: it is graded A (89/100). Read the Halal or Not safety report

How do I install Halal or Not?

It runs remotely at goodturn-mcp.pages.dev. Add it to Claude Code, Cursor, VS Code or Claude Desktop with the snippets above, or call it through the mcp.market gateway without installing anything.

Does Halal or Not need an API key?

Not as far as the registry entry and our scan can tell: no credentials are declared or required.

Is Halal or Not maintained?

The last commit was 15 days ago (2026-09-28). The latest release is v1.1.0.

Is Halal or Not up?

100% of our last 28 checks got an answer. We check remote servers about four times a day.

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