Contract review clause by clause — with a source for every finding
Send a PDF, a Word file, a scan or a photograph of the pages, and every clause comes back with its own finding and the quotation it rests on. Where the sources confirm nothing, Mizan says so plainly instead of filling the gap.
Mizan does not issue fatwas and does not replace a scholar. It is not legal advice and gives no contract force under the law of any country. Where the matter is serious, have the contract read by a specialist in Sharia and by a lawyer.
How it works
Send the document
PDF, Word, a scan or a photograph of the pages. Nothing to install, nothing to sign up for.
Each clause is read on its own
The text is broken into clauses and each one is examined separately, so a finding points at the particular sentence it concerns rather than at the document as a whole.
Every finding names its source
A statement stands only if a verbatim quotation supports it, and the server checks that the quotation is really in that book. Unconfirmed statements are discarded.
Read the page yourself
Open the page the quotation came from, in the original Arabic with the translation alongside, and see whether it says what the finding claims.
What you get back
A finding on each clause
Not one conclusion stamped on the whole document. Every clause is treated on its own, so a finding points at the particular sentence it concerns. The absence of a finding is not a statement that a clause is sound — it can simply mean the library says nothing about it.
The quotation, not a paraphrase
Each statement carries the wording of the source behind it. The server verifies that the quotation exists in the book it is attributed to; if the check fails, the statement is removed.
Where the opinion stands
A quotation is labelled as the majority view, the position of a madhhab, a minority view, or undetermined — so you know whether you are looking at settled ground or a disputed point.
Questions on transactions
Ask about sale and purchase, debt, rent, pledge, partnership, suretyship or mudarabah, and get the same treatment: an answer with the source it comes from.
Fifteen contract templates
Ready to fill in and print: instalment sale, rent, employment, debt, pledge (rahn), mudarabah, musharakah, wakalah, kafalah, hibah, istisna, salam, a marriage contract and a will (wasiyyah) and a marriage property agreement — in Russian, English and Arabic.
Formats you actually have
PDF, Word, scans and photographs of pages. Free, no registration, in the browser at mizan.cx or through the Telegram bot @AiMizanBot and its mini app.
What the answers rest on
Thirty-three works, 7,535 pages. Among them al-Mughni of Ibn Qudamah al-Maqdisi (volumes 6-10), Dalil at-Talib of al-Karmi, Bulugh al-Qasid of al-Ba'li, Islamic Finance by Taqi Usmani, 1,944 selected fatwas from islamweb.net — the fatwa centre of the Qatari ministry of awqaf — and course material on the fiqh of financial dealings. Every statement Mizan makes is backed by a word-for-word quotation. The server then checks that the quotation actually occurs in the source it names; if it does not, the statement is dropped before you ever see it. Each quotation is marked with the standing of the opinion behind it: the majority, the position of a madhhab, a minority view, or undetermined. Arabic is quoted in the original with the translation beside it, and the page of the book can be opened and read.
What Mizan does not do
It does not issue a fatwa and does not stand in for a scholar. It is not legal advice, and it gives a contract no standing under the law of any country. It works only inside fiqh al-muamalat: on worship, marriage or inheritance there is no corpus behind it, so it does not answer. There are two exceptions, and neither explains a ruling: the marriage-contract form in the templates section (a form to fill in), and the inheritance-shares calculator (arithmetic on shares named outright in the Qur’an). And when nothing in the library confirms an answer, it refuses to answer at all. That refusal is the point of the thing. An answer you cannot trace back to a page is worse than silence, because silence sends you to a scholar while a confident paraphrase sends you to a signature. Everything here is arranged so that you can check the reasoning against the book yourself — and so that when the check cannot be made, you are told. For a contract that matters, take it to a specialist in Sharia and to a lawyer. Mizan is what you read before that conversation, so that you arrive knowing which clause to ask about.
Questions
Is this a fatwa?
No. Mizan shows what the books in its library say about a clause, quotes them word for word and points to the page. A fatwa is a ruling given by a scholar who knows you and your circumstances. Mizan is not that, does not replace it, and will not pretend otherwise.
Does a checked contract have legal force?
No. Mizan gives a contract no standing under the law of any country, and what it produces is not legal advice. It shows what the sources say about the wording of a clause, nothing more. Before a contract that matters is signed, have it read by a specialist in Sharia and by a lawyer.
Where do the sources come from?
Thirty-three works, 7,535 pages: al-Mughni of Ibn Qudamah al-Maqdisi (volumes 6-10), Dalil at-Talib of al-Karmi, Bulugh al-Qasid of al-Ba'li, Islamic Finance by Taqi Usmani, 1,944 selected fatwas from islamweb.net, and course material on the fiqh of financial dealings. Each quotation names its book and page, and you can open that page yourself.
What happens when the sources do not settle my case?
You get no answer on that point. A statement that cannot be tied to a verbatim quotation is discarded rather than smoothed over, and if nothing in the library confirms an answer, Mizan says so plainly instead of giving one. It is built to leave a gap visible instead of filling it.
Is it free?
Yes. No payment, no account, no registration. The site mizan.cx works in a browser with nothing to install; there is also a Telegram bot, @AiMizanBot, and a mini app inside Telegram.
What happens to my documents?
The document you upload is kept on the server, so that a second upload does not have to be worked through again, and so that the service learns to read contracts more accurately. There is no time limit: it stays until you delete it. In the bot the document is tied to your Telegram account; on the site it is tied to your browser's pass, and either way it is visible only to you — the link alone no longer opens it for anyone else. Documents are never published. If the contract contains personal data, names and details can be blacked out: what the reading needs is the wording of the clauses, not who the parties are. Bear in mind that blacking out can make it impossible to examine clauses where the details themselves matter — the term, the amount, the currency.
What formats and languages does it take?
PDF, Word, scans and photographs of pages. The service works in Russian, English and Arabic, and the thirteen contract templates are available in all three.
Can it answer about marriage, inheritance or worship?
No. Mizan covers fiqh al-muamalat — sale, debt, rent, pledge, partnership, suretyship, mudarabah. There is no corpus behind the other chapters of fiqh, so it does not answer on them. A marriage contract form is among the templates, but questions on the law of marriage are outside what it will address.