One scholar. Two trainings.
Amanah Advisors began in 2017, when Mufti Faraz Adam set out to add something to Islamic finance rather than another opinion to it.
The field had scholars who knew the law and practitioners who knew the market, and very few people who could hold both at once. Rulings were being written by people who had never modelled a cash flow, and products were being built by people who had never read a classical text. So he trained for both, and built the firm on the join.
That is still the whole idea. Traditional scholarship, applied by someone who understands the instrument in front of them.
The training behind the firm.
Full profile →Two educations that usually belong to two different people in a room.
Trained in the law.
- Alimiyyah, six yearsIslamic studies, in the UK.
- The Mufti courseSpecialisation in Islamic law, completed in Durban, South Africa.
Trained in the market.
- Master’s, Islamic Finance, Banking and ManagementNewman University, UK.
- MBA DiplomaInternational Business Management Institute.
- Fintech SpecialisationUniversity of Michigan.
- ACCA Level 4, Accounting and BusinessChartered accountancy foundations.
A ruling on a tokenised asset needs both halves of that list. Take either half away and you get the two failures the industry already knows well: a verdict that cannot survive contact with the product, or a product that was never really examined.
A world where honest money just makes sense.
Open to everyone, Muslim or not. Amanah means trust; honest is the universal word for halal — clean, lawful, right.
Making Amanah the first and last word in finance done right.
Advisors owns the rigour — making it right. Intelligence owns the clarity — making it make sense. One feeds the other.
The mark is the colour of honey.
The gold in this brand is not a luxury signal. It is borrowed from a honeycomb — and so, it turns out, is most of how the firm is built.
The hexagon
Nothing in nature stores more with less. A hexagon shares every wall with its neighbour, so a comb carries many times its own weight in honey on almost no wax. It is the most disciplined shape there is.
That is what a standard is for. Not decoration — the structure that lets the thing hold weight.
The swarm
No bee builds a comb alone. Thousands work to the same measurement, in the dark, without a supervisor, and what they leave behind is a single structure.
A firm resting on one signature is not a structure. A named bench is — founder-led today, founder-proof tomorrow.
The honey
Honey is the rare thing that arrives finished. Nothing is added, nothing has to be taken out, and left alone it does not spoil. The bee has a chapter of the Qur’an named after it — Surah An-Nahl — where what comes from it is described as a healing for people.
Honest money is the same ambition: clean at the source, so nothing needs correcting later.
The patience
A comb is built cell by cell, and a hive gives nothing back in its first season. Amanah has been at this since 2017.
The things worth having here — a standard others cite, a bench that outlasts its founder — are measured on that clock. We are not in a hurry. We are in it.
What we hold to.
Trust is everything
It is literally our name. We earn it every time, and we never assume it.
Straight answers
Real rulings in plain words. When the answer is no, you get the no and the reasoning behind it.
Deep, but simple
We do the hard scholarship so that using the result feels effortless.
For everyone
From a central bank to a first savings account, the same care.