5 Halal Side Hustles Ideas to Make $1000/Month

I'm here today because 10 years ago, whilst I was working as a lawyer, I started a side hustle writing about Islamic finance on the internet. That little seed grew into what we have today, an investment business with over $175 million in assets under management and hundreds of thousands of Muslims around the world benefiting from our

free content. And I say this genuinely not to brag, it's to prove the point. Side hustles can be really powerful and can occasionally end up turning into full-time gigs that you could never even imagine or predict at the start. Most people think you need thousands of pounds to start or some big breakthrough

idea. You don't. So, in this video, I'm going to share with you five easy side hustles you can start in 2026 with 0. And the last one is the one I'm actually the most excited about because it's at the cutting edge and hardly anyone is doing it yet. For those of you that have

just pressed the subscribe button and are new to this channel, I'm the co-founder of Islamic Finance Guru and Curate Capital. We manage investments for our global investors and my background is in corporate law and I've also been lucky enough to write a best-selling book. Right, let's begin. Let's start with writing where I began.

Now, you might be thinking, but hang on a minute, Ibrahim, hasn't AI basically killed writing? Like, can't anyone just open chat GPT and bash out an essay in 20 seconds? And the answer is yeah, they can. Have you actually read AI writing? The last time I did, I had to take antibiotics for a week. It was that

sickening. It's flat. It's generic and just regurgitates what's already out there. What AI has done is made average writing really easy for the average person, which actually makes good writing stand out, I think, even more. The value in writing isn't typing words on a page that makes sense grammatically. It's taste. It's discernment. It's having a unique point