Tayyib checkOne council, three marks
The register, the board and the company are continuous across all three.
Islamic Monetary Council
Muslim Assayers Council
Islamic Digital Certification Council
Held by the scholars
The council is held by its Shariah Supervisory Board. Muftī Asim Patel sits as Director of Shariah and Sheikh Imran Mehrban as Head of Certification, and the rulings behind every certificate sit with them.
The Islamic Monetary Council was founded to publish the weights, the fineness and the certification that no other body was publishing, inspired by the coinage commissioned under Sayyidunā ʿUmar ibn al-Khaṭṭāb (raḍiyallāhu ʿanhu). The Dīnār and the Dirham were standardised under his leadership, and that commission is what fixes the Dīnār at 4.25 g of gold and the Dirham at 3.0618 g of silver to this day.
The breadth of the work mattered. Certifying a physical asset against a public register touches assaying, logistics, payments, identity and cryptography at once, and the work drew on every one of these sectors:
Very soon after the council was founded, Muftī Asim Patel came on board as Director of Shariah, and then Sheikh Imran Mehrban as Head of Certification, so that the fiqh and the assay each sat with a named, qualified person from the outset.
As the work grew, more people joined it. The council was then handed to the ʿulamā, so that the rulings behind every certificate would sit with qualified scholars. The IMC became the MAC and the register it signs, and both now sit inside the Islamic Digital Certification Council, whose scope has widened from gold and silver to blockchain assets, vehicles, finance, nikāḥ certificates and more.
The sequence
26 April 2021 · the mint
Sunnah Currency Ltd is incorporated in England and Wales, company 13355657, registered in Bolton with striking of coins as its business. Minting Dīnār and Dirham to the historical weights is what made the absence of a certifying authority concrete rather than theoretical.
2022 · the council begins
The Islamic Monetary Council is founded to publish the weights, the fineness and the certification, and the Tayyib register and scanner are built so a certificate can be checked against a public record instead of a seller's word. The Muslim Assayers Council follows, so that a licensed human assayer signs what the scanner returns.
6 November 2023 · formally constituted
Islamic Monetary Ltd is incorporated, company 15262221, registered at 295a Blackburn Road, Bolton, as a membership body and religious organisation. This is the company that holds the council and the register to this day.
Handed to the scholars
Muftī Asim Patel and Sheikh Imran Mehrban are brought on board and the council passes to the Shariah Supervisory Board. The name becomes the Islamic Digital Certification Council, and the scope widens beyond gold and silver. The same board, the same register, the same company.