Halal or Not is answering right now. Last checked 3 min ago. It exposes 13 tools. Last commit 4 Oct 2026.
Is it halal? Food, medicines, stocks, funds and crypto, with a verdict for each of the four schools.
Uptime history
14 days of history
14 days agonow
100.0%
Uptime 24h
92 of 92 checks
13
Tools
read from the server
28 ms
Response time
average over 24h
0
Stars
last commit 4 Oct 2026
What changed 11
Every tool that appeared, vanished or quietly changed what it asks for. Recorded since 29 September 2026. No other catalogue keeps this.
29 Sep
9 tool descriptions were rewritten
ask_is_it_halal, check_crypto, check_fund and 6 more
29 Sep
2 tools changed the parameters they ask for
get_prayer_times, search_products
Nothing serious here today
Today is the operative word: we check Halal or Not every 15 minutes and re-read its code on every release. Watch it and you find out the day that stops being true.
Connect this server
Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 3 min ago.
run in your terminal
claude mcp add halalornot --transport http https://goodturn-mcp.pages.dev/halalornot/mcp~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
{
"mcpServers": {
"halalornot": {
"url": "https://goodturn-mcp.pages.dev/halalornot/mcp"
}
}
}~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.halalornot]
url = "https://goodturn-mcp.pages.dev/halalornot/mcp".cursor/mcp.json
{
"mcpServers": {
"halalornot": {
"url": "https://goodturn-mcp.pages.dev/halalornot/mcp"
}
}
}.vscode/mcp.json
{
"mcpServers": {
"halalornot": {
"url": "https://goodturn-mcp.pages.dev/halalornot/mcp"
}
}
}Available tools 13
Read directly from the server with tools/list, grouped by what they act on.
If a tool disappears, we record the date.
explain
explain_ingredient
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_schools
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...
ask
ask_is_it_halal
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.
crypto
check_crypto
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.
fund
check_fund
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.
ingredients
check_ingredients
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.
medicine
check_medicine
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)
prayer
get_prayer_times
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...
product
check_product_by_barcode
Check a product by barcode. Looks the barcode up in Open Food Facts, then Open Beauty Facts, and checks its ingredients.
products
search_products
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.
rules
list_rules
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...
screen
screen_stock
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.
topics
list_topics
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...
Endpoints
| URL | Transport | State | Latency | Checked |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| https://goodturn-mcp.pages.dev/halalornot/mcp | streamable-http | answering | 36 ms | 3 min ago |
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Halal or Not — questions
Answers built from our own checks of this server.
What can Halal or Not do?
It exposes 13 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: ask_is_it_halal, check_crypto, check_fund, check_ingredients, check_medicine, check_product_by_barcode and 7 more. The full list with descriptions is on this page — we take it from the server itself via tools/list, not from a README.
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Is Halal or Not working right now?
We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 92 of 92 checks got a reply (100.0%), average response time 28 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.
How do I connect Halal or Not?
Copy the ready config from this page — we generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each with the file path that client actually reads. It is a remote server, so there is nothing to install — the client connects to the address.
Does Halal or Not need an API key?
No. Halal or Not completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 13 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.
How fast is Halal or Not?
It answers our handshake in 28 ms on average, which is faster than 99% of all working MCP servers we measure. That puts it in the quick quarter of the ecosystem. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.
Is Halal or Not open source?
Yes — it is published under the MIT licence, written in JavaScript and 0 stars on GitHub. The source link is on this page, so you can read exactly what it does with your data before you connect it.