Crypto and Islamic finance in plain words.

Every term you meet on Barqish, with Urdu script and Roman Urdu where it helps.

ATR

Average True Range: how much a coin typically moves in a period. Used to set stops and position size.

Buy zone / Wait / Avoid

Barqish’s daily verdict for a coin: a calmer area to consider buying, a time to be patient, or a setup to stay away from.

DEX

A decentralised exchange where you swap from your own wallet through smart contracts.

Drawdown Girawat

How far a price or account has fallen from its peak.

EMA Moving average

Exponential moving average: the average price over a period, weighted to recent days. The 200-day EMA shows the long-term trend.

Exchange (CEX) Exchange

A company that matches buyers and sellers and usually holds your coins for you. Check whether it is licensed where you live.

Fatwa فتویٰ

A religious ruling given by a qualified mufti on a specific question. Barqish does not issue fatwas.

Futures

Contracts to buy or sell later, usually settled without delivery and traded with leverage. Scholars widely consider them impermissible.

Gharar غرر Had se zyada ghair yaqeeni

Excessive uncertainty or ambiguity in a deal, such as not knowing what you are buying or whether it exists. Minor uncertainty is tolerated; excessive gharar makes a contract invalid.

Halal حلال Jaiz

Permissible. Barqish shows “Compliant” for coins that pass its screening, while reminding you that screening is guidance, not a ruling.

Haram حرام Najaiz

Prohibited. Barqish shows “Non-compliant” for coins whose core business involves interest, gambling, leverage or prohibited industries.

Hawl حول Saal

One full lunar year. Zakat is due once your wealth has stayed above the nisab for a hawl.

Leverage / margin Udhaar par trading

Trading with borrowed money to multiply the position. It usually involves interest and can wipe out your account.

Liquid staking

Getting a token that represents your staked coins, often reused in lending to earn more. Barqish marks these Questionable.

Liquidity

How easily you can buy or sell without moving the price.

Maal مال

Wealth that has value and can be owned. Whether crypto counts as maal is at the heart of the scholarly debate.

Market cap

Price multiplied by the number of coins in circulation.

Mashbooh مشتبہ Mashkook

Doubtful. Scholars differ or some features raise questions. Barqish shows “Questionable”. Many scholars advise staying away from doubtful matters.

Maysir میسر Jua

Gambling: gaining wealth purely by chance at another’s loss. Meme-coin frenzies, lottery-like games and leveraged bets raise maysir concerns.

Meme coin

A coin with no real product whose price runs on hype. Barqish marks these Questionable because of gharar and maysir.

Nafs نفس

The self and its desires. Barqish’s Nafs Guard adds a cooling-off pause after a sharp rally.

Nisab نصاب

The minimum wealth on which zakat becomes due: 87.48 g (7.5 tola) of gold or 612.36 g (52.5 tola) of silver.

Position size Kitna khareedna

How much to buy so that hitting your stop-loss only costs the small share of capital you planned to risk.

Pump and dump

A scheme where promoters inflate a price and sell to latecomers. Barqish’s Scam Check flags the signs.

Purification تطہیر Paak karna

Giving away the part of a profit that came from a non-compliant source, so the rest is clean.

PVARA

Pakistan Virtual Assets Regulatory Authority, the regulator for crypto service providers in Pakistan.

Qabd قبض Qabza

Taking possession of what you bought. On spot trading you pay in full and the coin is yours to hold or withdraw. Selling what you do not own (short selling) breaks this rule.

R-multiple R

Profit or loss measured in units of the risk you took. +2R means you made twice what you risked.

Resistance

A price area where sellers have taken over before.

Riba ربا Sood

Interest or any fixed extra charged on a loan or on an unequal exchange of like-for-like money. Islam prohibits it. Crypto “earn” and lending products that pay a fixed return usually involve riba.

RSI

Relative Strength Index, from 0 to 100. Below about 30 a coin is stretched down, above about 70 stretched up.

Rug pull

When a project’s creators disappear with investors’ money.

Sabr صبر

Patience. In Barqish, Sabr Mode pauses trading after a loss so you do not revenge-trade.

Sadaqah صدقہ Sadqa

Voluntary charity, given any time and in any amount.

Seed phrase

The 12 or 24 words that control your wallet. Never share them with anyone; Barqish will never ask for them.

Shariah شریعت Shariat

Islamic law, derived from the Quran, the Sunnah and scholarly reasoning.

Short selling Short karna

Selling a coin you do not own, hoping to buy it back cheaper. It breaks the rule of possession.

Spot trading

Buying a coin at today’s price with your own money and owning it straight away. The only kind of trading Barqish covers.

Stablecoin

A token pegged to a currency such as the US dollar (for example USDT). Issuer reserves may earn interest, so many scholars accept using it for payments but not holding it for yield.

Staking

Locking coins to help run a proof-of-stake network in return for rewards. Many scholars see validation rewards as a fee, not interest; lending-style “staking” is different.

Stop-loss

A price at which you sell to limit a loss. Barqish’s Trade Guardian watches it for you.

Support

A price area where buyers have stepped in before.

Take-profit / target Target

A price at which you plan to sell part or all of a winning position.

Tola تولہ

The unit used for gold and silver in Pakistan: 1 tola = 11.664 grams.

Wallet

Software or a device that holds the keys to your coins. “Not your keys, not your coins.”

Zakat زکوٰۃ

The obligatory annual charity of 2.5% on wealth above the nisab that has been held for a lunar year.