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What You Should Know

Bentley Systems, Incorporated is a publicly-traded infrastructure-engineering software company whose applications and digital-twin platform are used by engineering firms, owner-operators, and governments to design, construct, and operate infrastructure assets such as roads, bridges, rail, water and wastewater networks, and energy and utility systems. Development and licensing of engineering and infrastructure software is a general-purpose technology activity that is unambiguously permissible at the activity level under standard Sharia methodology. The financial screen is the primary consideration: Bentley carries some debt, including convertible notes, supporting its acquisition-driven growth, so the debt-to-market-cap ratio should be verified against the 33% Sharia threshold at the time of investment, though the company generates strong recurring subscription revenue and free cash flow. Subject to that verification, most major Sharia advisory boards classify Bentley as permissible with purification of small interest-income components.