Faisal Islamic is Egypt's first Islamic bank, with Arabic-first statements full of Murabaha and Wakala labels. If you handle Sharia-committed clients, stop retyping. Bulk-convert in one session.
Convert client statementsEgyptian accounting practices handle a mix of clients — multinationals on conventional banks, and a sizeable segment of Sharia-committed retail and SME clients who bank exclusively with Islamic institutions. Faisal Islamic Bank of Egypt, founded in 1977 as Egypt's first Islamic bank, is the relationship of choice for that segment, including Egyptian professionals with Saudi or Gulf connections given the bank's original Saudi founding mandate. Its statements need handling that a conventional-only workflow gets wrong.
Faisal Islamic statements are Arabic-first with Islamic product terminology throughout: Murabaha, Musharaka, Mudaraba, Wakala. The Egyptian Tax Authority treats profit distribution like conventional interest (20% withholding) but does not recognise Zakat as a deductible expense. Getting these classifications right by hand, statement after statement, is the time sink. Kashfbank does the bridge in under a minute per client and keeps every Islamic label intact.
Kashfbank exports a standard CSV: Date, Description (full Arabic narration as printed), Debit, Credit, Balance, Category, Currency. Islamic product labels — Murabaha ('مرابحة'), profit distribution ('توزيع أرباح'), Wakala investment ('وكالة استثمار'), Zakat ('زكاة') — are preserved in the Description column. The CSV maps to the tools Egyptian practices use, including Bisan, MS Dynamics, and QuickBooks for international clients, with at most a small date-format adjustment on first import.
Islamic product narrations are often longer than conventional ones and may wrap across multiple rows in the description column — Kashfbank reconstructs the full string per transaction. Zakat deductions appear infrequently (once a year) with unusual amounts; a generic parser may flag them as anomalous, but the export tags them as Zakat so they are not misread as an operating debit or an error.
Across a client folder, the same classification rules apply every time: profit distribution is investment income (20% withheld), Murabaha and Musharaka instalments are financing cost, and Zakat is a non-deductible personal obligation. Kashfbank tags each consistently so your team applies the ETA treatment correctly without re-deciding row by row.
Arabic-first bilingual PDF. Islamic product terminology throughout: Murabaha, Musharaka, Mudaraba, Wakala. Account header includes Sharia supervisory board reference and Islamic finance product type. EGP running balance. Profit distribution entries appear as separate line items distinct from principal movements. Zakat-eligible balance indicators may appear where applicable. Older statements (pre-2018) may be lower-resolution scans.
| Label | Meaning |
|---|---|
| مرابحة | Murabaha cost-plus financing instalment |
| توزيع أرباح | Profit distribution credit on investment account |
| وكالة استثمار | Wakala investment placement or return |
| زكاة | Zakat deduction from eligible balance |
| إيداع نقدي | Cash deposit |
Rules in Egypt differ — see our country guide
Collect client PDFs
Have each client export their Faisal Islamic statement from Faisal Islamic Mobile. For corporate tax, annual. For monthly bookkeeping, monthly. For VAT, quarterly. Older pre-2018 statements may be lower-resolution scans — the conversion still reads them.
Bulk upload by client
Upload all of one client's PDFs in a session. Each file is converted independently and labelled with its filename. Multi-month merges happen in Excel after export — Kashfbank preserves the chronology.
Apply chart of accounts with Islamic categories
Open each CSV and set the Category column (Revenue, Operating Expense, Islamic Financing, Investment Income, Zakat, Bank Charges). The Islamic labels are already preserved, so the mapping is mechanical. First client takes 20 minutes; subsequent months 5.
Import to bookkeeping or working papers
Push the categorised CSV into Bisan, MS Dynamics, QuickBooks, or your audit tooling. The original Faisal Islamic PDF stays in the client folder as the source document.
Common challenges
How does Kashfbank classify profit distribution for ETA work?
Profit distribution ('توزيع أرباح') is tagged Investment Income. The ETA treats it like conventional interest, subject to 20% withholding deducted at source. The credited figure is net; to report gross, your accountant divides by 0.80. Kashfbank preserves the net figure exactly as printed.
Is the Zakat deduction a deductible expense for the client's return?
No. Zakat ('زكاة') is a personal religious obligation and is not recognised by the ETA as a deductible expense under Egyptian income tax law. Kashfbank tags it separately so it is never misclassified as an operating cost or flagged as an anomalous debit.
Faisal Islamic narrations are long and sometimes wrap. Does the export handle that?
Yes. Islamic product labels are often longer than conventional narrations and may wrap across multiple rows in the source. Kashfbank reconstructs the full narration into one row per transaction so the Description column is complete and the Category mapping is reliable.
Some client statements are old, low-quality scans. Can Kashfbank process them?
Pre-2018 Faisal Islamic statements may be lower-resolution scans. Kashfbank still reads them; where a page is heavily degraded, the extraction confidence drops and those rows are flagged in the output for a quick manual check before you finalise the working paper.
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Regulator: Central Bank of Egypt (CBE)
Fiscal year: Jul 1 – Jun 30 (government); Jan–Dec (private sector)
Full country guide →Statement language: Arabic / English