I write about what I learned the hard way: about breath, money and faith. In English as J.S. Adam, and in Arabic as Jamal Ibn Adam.
Bitcoin in the Scales of Shariah and Reality: a Muslim beginner’s guide to understanding, buying and safely keeping Bitcoin
Is Bitcoin halal, or haram? People around you argue, some permitting it and some forbidding it. This book puts the scholars’ and fiqh bodies’ views in front of you, in their own words and with their sources, and then lets you decide with understanding.
Paperback and hardcover coming soon. Every figure, date and quotation checked against its source, with nearly 290 footnotes. For education only: not financial advice, and not a fatwa.
In English, on Amazon in every marketplace.
A Journey Through Survival and Faith. Revised edition, 2026
Far from home, a physicist lies in a room of glass, counting the hiss of the oxygen. A scan shows five per cent of his lungs still working. Two hospitals: one that counted what his lungs could pay, one that counted what they could breathe.
It is a story of a brother who would not give up, a friend who refused to take a single coin, and a faith that held when the paper promises broke.
Reading in Arabic? See the Arabic editions: «مرشد العملات الرقميّة» and «أنفاس الأمل».
J.S. Adam is the pen name of Jamal, son of Adam. He studied physics and engineering, and today builds software platforms. In 2018 he discovered Bitcoin, and saw in it an old idea in new clothes: money its owner truly owns.
Then came the test. He fell seriously ill with COVID-19 in a country that was not his own: about three months in two private hospitals, more than three weeks of it in intensive care, then a month at home being weaned off oxygen. His insurer refused to pay, so he paid the bills himself, helped by the Bitcoin he had saved. Breaths of Hope is that story.
He now writes to be a mentor to ordinary people: to explain the new world of money in their own language, to warn them about scammers, and to set the scholars’ evidence before them. He also turns his words into anthems sung in human voices alone.
To every hospital that counts beds before it counts breaths: we are not invoices.
A cappella anthems and short videos drawn from the books, in English and in Arabic.
English anthems and spoken word, including “What Is a Man Worth?” from Breaths of Hope.
J.S. Adam