Either as Zakat payment, wedding Mahar or simply for safekeeping, Gold Dinar and Silver Dirhams are gaining popularity as a viable currency for Muslims to use in religious practices. But is it truly viable? Zack Abdullah analyses the intricacies involved.

A few years ago, the demand for gold and silver as the basis of our monetary systems was labelled at best as "backward-looking romanticism." Slowly, however, the fog is clearing.

Islamic countries should continue to use paper currency instead of gold dinar as the return to coinage system could increase interest rates and inflation would be difficult to control.